The elucidation of small-scale vegetation patterns
The elucidation of small-scale vegetation patterns
The Askrigg Block was tectonically active during accumulation of the Limestones. Movements altered the depositional environment and are recorded in the sediments by variations in thickness and lithology, the location of and relationships between certain lithologies and the presence and poaitior of erosion surfaces. The bioherms show successive displacement northwards with time in resourse to southward tilting of the Block. This tilting caused deepening of the sea over the southern region preventing biogenic carbonate production and formation of the Underset and Crow Limestones in this area. The major underlying cause of these movements is related to differential subsidence along the faults bounding the Askrigg Block. Locking or increased drag on the faults caused tilting or downwarp of the Block edges. Tilting was sometimes compensatory, downward movement of one edge being accompanied by uplift of the opposite edge. Movements on the Askrigg Block not directly related to motion on the boundary faults shows the Block is not monolithic.
University of Southampton
1976
Fry, Gary Lindsay Andrew
(1976)
The elucidation of small-scale vegetation patterns.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The Askrigg Block was tectonically active during accumulation of the Limestones. Movements altered the depositional environment and are recorded in the sediments by variations in thickness and lithology, the location of and relationships between certain lithologies and the presence and poaitior of erosion surfaces. The bioherms show successive displacement northwards with time in resourse to southward tilting of the Block. This tilting caused deepening of the sea over the southern region preventing biogenic carbonate production and formation of the Underset and Crow Limestones in this area. The major underlying cause of these movements is related to differential subsidence along the faults bounding the Askrigg Block. Locking or increased drag on the faults caused tilting or downwarp of the Block edges. Tilting was sometimes compensatory, downward movement of one edge being accompanied by uplift of the opposite edge. Movements on the Askrigg Block not directly related to motion on the boundary faults shows the Block is not monolithic.
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