The relationship of the Bowland shales to the pendleside limestone in the Clitheroe, Slaidburn and Sykes Anticlines

✍ Scribed by D. Parkinson

• Book ID: 102846258
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 631 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0072-1050
• DOI: 10.1002/gj.3350040112

✦ Synopsis

The Pendleside Limestone is redefined as comprising the B, (S,) zone and the lower part of the B, (D,) zone. It is argued that the Bowland Shales, including the basal beds of upper B, age, transgress the Pendleside Limestone northwards from Clitheroe, following a shallow earth-movement with axes crossing the Ashnott Anticline, the Slaidburn Anticline and the Sykes Anticline. The Slaidburn Breccia is shown to be of lower B, age. There is unconformable overlap locally of the Lower Bowland Shales.