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Gryphaea beds (upper Scunthorpe Mudstone Formation, Lower Jurassic) at Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire, north-east England
J. D. Radley
Gryphaea beds (upper Scunthorpe Mudstone Formation, Lower Jurassic) at Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire, north-east England
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (November 2008) 57, Part 2: 107-112
Gryphaea beds (upper Scunthorpe Mudstone Formation, Lower Jurassic) at Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire, north-east England
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (November 2008) 57, Part 2: 107-112
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Abstract
The upper part of the Scunthorpe Mudstone Formation (Sinemurian, Lower Jurassic) beneath the Frodingham Ironstone at Scunthorpe, north-east England, comprises richly fossiliferous mudrocks and limestones. These strata were recently exposed in temporary sections north of Scunthorpe and yielded large numbers of gryphaeid oysters and other invertebrate fossils. Many of the oysters are extensively bioeroded and disarticulated, and locally constitute coarse-grained bioclastic limestones. These features indicate establishment of a periodically agitated, shallow-water, photic setting, presaging deposition of the ooidal Frodingham Ironstone during the culmination of mid-Sinemurian shallowing.
ISSN: 0044-0604
EISSN: 2041-4811
Coden: PYGSAB
Serial Title: Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
Serial Volume: 57, Part 2
Title: Gryphaea beds (upper Scunthorpe Mudstone Formation, Lower Jurassic) at Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire, north-east England
Author(s): Radley, J. D.
Affiliation: University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Pages: 107-112
Published: 200811
Text Language: English
Publisher: Yorkshire Geological Society,
Leeds,
United Kingdom
References: 15
Accession Number: 2009-038345
Categories: Invertebrate paleontology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. sketch map
N53°34'60" - N53°34'60", W00°39'00" - W00°39'00"
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 200921