| Автор | Floyd, James D. |
| Автор | Williams, Mark |
| Дата выпуска | 2002 |
| dc.description | ABSTRACTIn late Ordovician and early Silurian times, the Girvan district lay in a shelf marinesetting on the margin of Laurentia, on the northern side of the Iapetus Ocean. The Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Girvan district, and their shelly and graptolitic fossil fauna, were systematically described by Lapworth in 1882 and have formed an important research resource ever since. They provide valuable evidence for the depositional environment and geological setting of Girvan during the early Palaeozoic, in both regional and wider contexts, and demonstrate the long-recognised close affinity with contemporaneous Laurentian faunas. However, by late Ordovician and into Silurian times, the earlier Iapetus oceanic barrier to faunal migration had largely gone and there is good correlation between contemporaneous marine fauna throughout the British Isles and Scandinavia. Despite much recent research in the area, including resurvey work by the British Geological Survey, no comprehensive review of Silurian lithostratigraphy at Girvan has been published since the revision by Cocks and Toghill in 1973. The present review of the Silurian rocks addresses this need and complements the recently published (Fortey et al. 2000) revision of the underlying Ordovician rocks, thus bringing the entire Girvan Lower Palaeozoic succession up to modern standards of nomenclature. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Royal Society of Edinburgh Scotland Foundation |
| Копирайт | Royal Society of Edinburgh |
| Тема | Biostratigraphy |
| Тема | graptolites |
| Тема | lithostratigraphy |
| Тема | shelly faunas |
| Название | A revised correlation of Silurian rocks in the Girvan district, SW Scotland |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0263593300000481 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1755-6929 |
| Print ISSN | 1755-6910 |
| Журнал | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
| Том | 93 |
| Первая страница | 383 |
| Последняя страница | 392 |
| Аффилиация | Floyd James D.; British Geological Survey, Murshison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA. |
| Аффилиация | Williams Mark; British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG. |
| Выпуск | 4 |
