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Sedimentary facies of the Forest Marble (Bathonian), Shipton-on-Cherwell Quarry, Oxfordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. R. L. Allen  and
P. Kaye
J. R. L. Allen
Affiliation:
Sedimentology Research Laboratory, Department of GeologyThe UniversityReading
P. Kaye
Affiliation:
Burmah Oil Co. of Australia Ltd10 Stirling HighwayNedlandsW. Australia 6009
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Summary

The unrivalled exposures of the quarry show the Forest Marble to comprise a complex association of vertically and laterally changing facies. These are interpreted to represent environments ranging from subtidal-intertidal fully marine sand shoals and hard substrates colonized by corals, to mud flats and tidal channels associated with coastal swamps. An earlier interpretation of calcarenites in the Forest Marble is inapplicable at Shipton-on-Cherwell.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 110 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 153 - 163
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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