Structural evolution of the Skiddaw Group (English Lake District) on the northern margin of eastern Avalonia

Hughes, R.A.; Cooper, A.H.; Stone, P.. 1993 Structural evolution of the Skiddaw Group (English Lake District) on the northern margin of eastern Avalonia. Geological Magazine, 130 (5). 621-629. 10.1017/S0016756800020926

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The Skiddaw Group comprises a marine sedimentary sequence deposited on the northern margin of eastern Avalonia in Tremadoc to Llanvirn times. It is unconformably overlain by subduction-related volcanic rocks (the Eycott and Borrowdale Volcanic groups) of mid-Ordovician age, and foreland basin marine strata of late Ordovician and Silurian age. The Skiddaw Group has a complex deformation history. Syn-depositional deformation produced soft sediment folds and an olistostrome. Volcanism was preceded (in late Llanvirn to Llandeilo times) by regional uplift and tilting of the Skiddaw Group, probably caused by the generation of melts through subduction-related processes. The Acadian (late Caledonian) deformation event produced a northeast- to east-trending regional cleavage, axial planar to large scale folds, and a later set of southward-directed thrusts with associated minor folds and crenulation cleavages. This event affected the northern Lake District probably in the late Silurian and early Devonian. The Skiddaw Group structures contrast strongly with those formed during the same event in the younger rocks of the Lake District inlier. The contrasts are attributed to differing rheological responses to varying and possibly diachronous stresses, and to possible impedence of thrusting by the combined mass of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group and the Lake District batholith.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1017/S0016756800020926
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > Geology and Landscape Northern
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	24 Jul 2012 12:08 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18879

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