A synopsis of the Ordovician System in its birthplace - Britain and Ireland

Molyneux, Stewart G.; Harper, David A.T.; Cooper, Mark R.; Hollis, Steven Philip; Raine, Robert J.; Rushton, Adrian W.A.; Smith, M. Paul; Stone, Philip; Williams, Mark; Woodcock, Nigel H.; Zalasiewicz, Jan A.. 2023 A synopsis of the Ordovician System in its birthplace - Britain and Ireland. In: Harper, D.A.T., (ed.) A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System. Part 1. London, UK, Geological Society of London. (Geological Society Special Publication, 532, 532).

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Abstract/Summary

Rock successions in Britain and Ireland, and more especially those in North Wales, were instrumental in the founding and naming of the Ordovician System, and the Anglo-Welsh series established both initially and subsequently were used widely as a standard for Ordovician chronostratigraphy. Although now largely superseded in the global scheme of series and stages, they retain their local and regional importance. The Ordovician System in Britain and Ireland documents the history of a segment of the Earth's crust that incorporated opposing peri-Gondwanan and peri-Laurentian/Laurentian margins of the Iapetus Ocean during its closure, and is accordingly complex. The complexity arises from the volcanic and tectonic processes that accompanied oceanic closure coupled with the effects of eustatic sea-level changes, including the far-field effects of the Late Ordovician glaciation. For the past three decades, Ordovician successions in Britain and Ireland have been discussed in terms of terranes. Here we review Ordovician successions in each terrane, incorporating the results of recent research and correlating those successions via biostratigraphical schemes and radiometric dates to the global Ordovician series and stages.

Item Type:	Publication - Book Section
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1144/SP532-2022-235
ISSN:	0305-8719
Date made live:	06 Jan 2023 13:52 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533834

Item Type:

Publication - Book Section

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1144/SP532-2022-235

ISSN:

0305-8719

Date made live:

06 Jan 2023 13:52 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533834