Recycled aritarchs as provenance indicators : implications for Caledonian Terrane Reconstruction

McCaffrey, W.D.; Barron, H.F.; Molyneux, S.G.; Kneller, B.C.. 1992 Recycled aritarchs as provenance indicators : implications for Caledonian Terrane Reconstruction. Geological Magazine, 129 (4). 457-464.

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Abstract/Summary

Silurian successions deposited on the margins of the Iapetus Ocean in the English Lake District, Southern Uplands of Scotland and Ireland contain recycled Ordovician acritarchs. These include taxa known only from Avalonia and Gondwana, with other recycled acritarchs possibly derived from Baltica. There is no palynological evidence to indicate that Laurentiaconstituted a source area. The data presented herein suggest that provinciality in derived microfossils may be profitably exploited in provenance studies.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Programmes:	BGS Programmes 2008 > Geology and Landscape Scotland
ISSN:	0016-7568
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	09 Aug 2012 15:49 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19160

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Programmes:

BGS Programmes 2008 > Geology and Landscape Scotland

ISSN:

0016-7568

NORA Subject Terms:

Earth Sciences

Date made live:

09 Aug 2012 15:49 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19160