A multi-proxy approach to identifying short-lived marine incursions in the Early Carboniferous

Bennett, Carys; Davies, Sarah; Leng, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1115-5166; Snelling, Andrea; Millward, David; Kearsey, Timothy; Marshall, John; Reves, Emma. 2015 A multi-proxy approach to identifying short-lived marine incursions in the Early Carboniferous. [Other] In: EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

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This study is a contribution to the TW:eed Project (Tetrapod World: early evolution and diversification), which examines the rebuilding of Carboniferous ecosystems following a mass extinction at the end of the Devonian. The project focuses on the Tournaisian Ballagan Formation of Scotland and the Borders, which contains rare fish and tetrapod material. The Ballagan Formation is characterised by sandstones, dolomitic cementstones, paleosols, siltstones and gypsum deposits. The depositional environment ranges from fluvial, alluvial-plain to marginal-marine environments, with fluvial, floodplain and lacustrine deposition dominant.