Mississippian reef development in the Cracoe Limestone Formation of the southern Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire, UK

Waters, C.N.; Haslam, R.B.; Cózar, P.; Somerville, I.D.; Millward, D.; Woods, M.. 2017 Mississippian reef development in the Cracoe Limestone Formation of the southern Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire, UK. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 61 (3). 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2016-374

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Abstract/Summary

The southern margin of the Askrigg Block around Cracoe, North Yorkshire, shows a transition from carbonate ramp to reef-rimmed shelf margin, which, based on new foraminiferal/algal data, is now constrained to have initiated during the late Asbian. A late Holkerian to early Asbian ramp facies that included small mudmounds developed in comparatively deeper waters, in a transition zone between the proximal ramp, mudmound-free carbonates of the Scaleber Quarry Limestone Member (Kilnsey Formation) and the distal Hodderense Limestone and lower Pendleside Limestone formations of the adjacent Craven Basin. The ramp is envisaged as structurally fragmented, associated with sudden thickness and facies changes. The late Asbian to early Brigantian apron reefs and isolated reef knolls of the Cracoe Limestone Formation include massive reef core and marginal reef flank facies, the latter also including development of small mudmounds on the deeper water toes of back-reef flanks. The position of the apron/knoll reefs is constrained to the south (hangingwall) of the North Craven Fault, but it is syn-depositional displacement on the Middle Craven Fault that accounts for the thick reefal development. Subsequent inversion of this structure during the early Brigantian caused uplift and abandonment of the reefs and consequent burial by the Bowland Shale Formation.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2016-374
ISSN:	0044-0604
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	28 Feb 2017 16:03 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516371

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2016-374

ISSN:

0044-0604

NORA Subject Terms:

Earth Sciences

Date made live:

28 Feb 2017 16:03 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516371