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    Synchronous very low-grade metamorphism, contraction and inversion in the central part of the Welsh Lower Palaeozoic Basin

    Roberts, B. and Merriman, R.J. and Hirons, Steven and Fletcher, C.J.N. and Wilson, D. (1996) Synchronous very low-grade metamorphism, contraction and inversion in the central part of the Welsh Lower Palaeozoic Basin. Journal of the Geological Society 153 (2), pp. 277-285. ISSN 0016-7649.

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    Abstract

    A metamorphic map (white mica crystallinity) based on 663 data points has been generated for the recently published British Geological Survey 1:50 000 geological sheets 178 (Llanilar) and 179 (Rhayader). Epizone, upper anchizone, lower anchizone and sub-anchizone are delineated. Metamorphic cross-sections are drawn and superimposed on structural cross-sections. Assumptions made in order to draw metamorphic cross-sections are: (1) the anchizone spans 100°C; (2) the metamorphic field gradient was 36°Ckm−1; (3) metamorphic surfaces were initially generated parallel to the contemporary ground surface. Restoration of the sections indicates that at the time of metamorphism a contractional phase had begun because reverse movement on earlier extensional faults, development of back-thrusts, footwall short-cuts and limited growth of precursor folds had taken place. Metamorphism continued locally during later stages of the contractional phase as a strain-related phenomenon. Finally, tensional faulting followed the cessation of folding and metamorphism.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 09 Sep 2019 13:35
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:53
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28845

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