A Field Guide to the Carboniferous Sediments of the Shannon Basin Western Ireland 1st Edition by James Best, Paul Wignall ISBN 978-1119257127 1119257123

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ISBN 10:  1119257123

ISBN 13: 978-1119257127

Author: James L. Best, Paul B. Wignall

The Carboniferous Shannon Basin of Western Ireland has become one of the most visited field areas in the world. It provides an ideal opportunity for examining a wide range of ancient sedimentary environments, including carbonate shelf, reefs and mud mounds, black shales and phosphates, and a spectrum of deep sea, shallow marine, fluvio-deltaic and alluvial siliciclastic sediments. The area boasts extensive outcrops and some of the most renowned sections through turbidites, large-scale soft sediment deformation features and sediments that display a response to tectonic and sea-level controls.

This field guide provides the first synthesis of the principal localities in this area of Western Ireland, and presents an easily accessible handbook that will guide the reader to, and within, a wide range of sedimentary facies, allowing an understanding of the evolving nature of the fill of this Carboniferous basin and the context of its sedimentary and tectonic evolution. The guide summarizes recent and new work in the area by a range of authors and outlines issues of current debate concerning the Shannon Basin and its palaeoenvironmental interpretation. The field guide will find extensive use in teaching and research by academic researchers, professional and amateur geologists, as well as by applied geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers who use these outcrops as analogues for subsurface reservoirs in many areas of the world.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction to the Field Guide
Jim Best & Paul B. Wignall

2. The Shannon Basin: Structural Setting and Evolution
John Graham

3. Basin Models
Paul B. Wignall & Jim Best

4. Lower Carboniferous of the Shannon Basin Region
Ian D. Somerville

5. Viséan Coral Biostromes and Karsts of the Burren
Ian D. Somerville

6. The Clare Shales
Paul B. Wignall, Ian D. Somerville & Karen Braithwaite

7. Architecture of a Distributive Submarine Fan: The Ross Sandstone Formation
David R. Pyles & Lorna J. Strachan

8. Evolving Depocentre and Slope: The Gull Island Formation
Lorna J. Strachan & David R. Pyles

9. The Tullig and Kilkee Cyclothems in Southern County Clare
Jim Best, Paul B. Wignall, Eleanor J. Stirling, Eric Obrock & Alex Bryk

10. The Tullig and Kilkee Cyclothems of Northern County Clare
Paul B. Wignall, Jim Best, Jeff Peakall & Jessica Ross

11. The Younger Namurian Cyclothems around Spanish Point
Paul B. Wignall & Jim Best

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