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The Origin of the “Beach-Beds” in the Lower Carboniferous of Castleton, Derbyshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Helen E. Sadler
Helen E. Sadler
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Department of Geology, University of Leicester, 1963.
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Abstract

The “Beach-Beds” at Castleton, Derbyshire, are shown to be detrital deposits containing numerous water-worn and broken brachiopod shell fragments set in a matrix of finely comminuted shell and crinoid debris. They occur at the junction of the fore-reef and basin facies of the Carboniferous Limestone. Previous interpretations of the “Beach-Beds” as cliff-foot screes or as beds lying above an unconformity are not supported, and it would appear that they are composed largely of debris transported down a submarine channel (the approximate position of which is now the dry valley of the Winnats) rather than in shallow water on a sea-beach, being deposited at the foot of the channel contemporaneously with the adjacent fore-reef beds.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 101 , Issue 4 , 24 August 1964 , pp. 360 - 372
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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