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Sedimentation, cleavage and tectonic thinning in the aberystwyth grits between clarach and wallog, cardigan bay
✍ Scribed by Alan Wood
- Book ID
- 102221788
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 438 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0072-1050
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In recent years the folding and cleavage seen in the Aberystwyth Grits has been ascribed to downslope movement in soft unlithified sediment, not to tectonic forces. A detailed examination of folded beds in a small part of the outcrop was undertaken to test this theory. It is concluded that the folding and cleavage was initiated by movement from a rising tectonic ridge, but that the sediments may not have been completely lithified at the time of folding.