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The Carboniferous Limestone of Chipping Sodbury and Wick, Gloucestershire
Author(s) -
Murray J. W.,
Wright C. A.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
geological journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1099-1034
pISSN - 0072-1050
DOI - 10.1002/gj.3350070204
Subject(s) - intertidal zone , geology , sedimentation , algal mat , carboniferous , sequence (biology) , ecological succession , paleontology , oceanography , geomorphology , algae , ecology , sediment , structural basin , biology , genetics
Abstract The rock types and successions encountered at two localities have been described and interpretated with reference to modern analogues. In the Clifton Down Limestone a cycle of sedimentation is recognised passing from intertidal algal mats , through lagoons, barrier and open shelf deposits and back through the same sequence to intertidal algal mats.