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Triassic and Pleistocene Surfaces on some Leicestershire Igneous Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Frank Raw
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The ancient rocks of Leicestershire may be taken to comprise the pre-Cambrian volcanic and sedimentary rocks of Charnwood Forest, and the igneous rocks intrusive into them, viz. the dacite-porphyrites of Bardon Hill, Peldar, and High Sharpley, etc., the granophyric diorites and porphyrites within and south-west of the Forest and in South Leicestershire, and the Mountsorrel granite or granodiorite. There is reason to believe that all except the last are pre-Cambrian in age: for the last a post-Silurian age seems most probable. These ancient rocks are now exposed through the removal of the Keuper Marl, whichhad largely if not completely buried them. In glacial times, however, small areas have been reburied under glacial deposits.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , January 1934 , pp. 23 - 31
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1934

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