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Some Unusual Ripple Marks in Carboniferous Limestone near Spittal, North Northumberland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

K. A. G. Shiells
K. A. G. Shiells
Affiliation:
Geology Department, The University, Glasgow.
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Abstract

Ripple marks of unusual dimensions are recorded from the Sandbanks Limestone (Middle Limestone Group) at a foreshore locality 3 miles south of Spittal in North Northumberland. The structures are thought to have been formed in a partially cohesive calcareous mudas wave-oscillation ripples which have undergone penecontemporaneous modification.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 100 , Issue 6 , December 1963 , pp. 498 - 502
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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