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Basement Carboniferous in Upper Teesdale, N. Yorks.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. T. Harry
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Abstract

Excavations in Upper Teesdale, N. Yorks, exposed basement Carboniferous at its unconformable contact with underlying shales of probable Silurian age. The lowest basement beds are tough conglomerates cut by compression joints. The constituent pebbles are unsorted, locally derived, and mainly andesites and rhyolites, with vein quartz and shale pebbles. A dreikanter outline is common. The conglomerate is contrasted with others also between the Carboniferous and Lower Palaeozoic in England.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 87 , Issue 4 , August 1950 , pp. 297 - 299
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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