Proceedings of the

Yorkshire Geological Society

VOLUME 4 8 PART 4 1 9 9 1

Yorkshire Geological Society FOUNDED 1837

O F F I C E R S A N D C O U N C I L Elected 8th December, 1990

President Mr B. YOUNG

Vice-Presidents Prof. A. C. DUNHAM Dr M.ROMANO

General Secretary Mr A. C. BENFIELD School of Geography and Earth Resources, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX

Programme Secretary Dr N. J. RILEY British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG

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Cover illustration: Scoured, cross-laminated sandstone and siltstone from the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the Lake District. Ignimbrites and volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks dominate the upper part of the sequence. The voluminous pyroclastic eruptions that produced the ignimbrites caused piecemeal caldera collapse forming local sedimentary basins in which fluviatile, lacustrine and, locally, marine deposits were preserved. The strong cleavage produced during the Caledonian (Acadian) orogeny along with the attractive green colour and variety of sedimentary structures makes the volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks much sought after as ornamental stone. These rocks have been quarried for many years. The specimen illustrated is from Rydal 'Cave' (NY 3455 0578), a disused quarry on the popular Loughrigg Terrace footpath, to the south of Grasmere (description by E. W. Johnson). X 1.2 B.G.S. photograph MNS5188, taken by T. Bain. Reproduced by permission of the Director, British Geological Survey; N.E.R.C. Copyright reserved.

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M. J. Barker see N. T. J. Hollingworth and M. J. Barker 347

M. S. Benzagouta and M. R. Lee New evidence for the origin of distinctive quartz overgrowth textures in the Raisby Formation (Zechstein carbonate), north-east England 409

D. Q. Bowen, D. B. Smith and G. A. Sykes The age of the Easington Raised Beach, County Durham 415

D. Q. Bowen and G. A. Sykes Discussion o / 'The correlation of the Speeton Shell Bed, Filey Bay, Yorkshire, to an oxygen isotope stage" 463

T. J. Bralower Lower Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of a North Sea borehole: implications for Boreal Cretaceous stratigraphy 421

A. Brandon, M. G. Sumbler and H, C. Ivimey-Cook A revised lithostratigraphy for the Lower and Middle Lias (Lower Jurassic) east of Nottingham, England 121

R. L. Brenner and O. J. Martinsen The Fossil Sandstone — a shallow marine sand wave complex in the Namurian of Cumbria and North Yorkshire, England 149

C. H. C. Brunton and J. W. Tilsley A check list of brachiopods from Treak Cliff, Derbyshire, with reference to other Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous) localities 287

J. R. Davies

Karstification and pedogenesis on a late Dinantian carbonate platform, Anglesey, North Wales . . . 297

K. C. Dunham see B. L. Hodge and K. C. Dunham 323

T. D. Ford see D. G. Quirk, T. D. Ford, J. A. King, I. L. Roberts, R. B. Postance and I. Odell . . . 99

M. J. Garratt see R. B. Rickards and M. J. Garratt 41

S. Gowland and J. B. Riding Stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology of the Scarborough Formation (Middle Jurassic)

at Hundale Point, North Yorkshire 375

A. Grant see R. Middleton and A. Grant 75

P. Gutteridge The origin and significance of the distribution of shelly macrofauna in late Dinantian carbonate mud mounds of Derbyshire 23 P. Gutteridge Depositional environments and palaeogeography of the Station Quarry Beds (Brigantian), Derbyshire, England 189

B. L. Hodge and K. C. Dunham Clastics, coals, palaeodistributaries and mineralisation in the Namurian Great Cyclothem, Northern Pennines and Northumberland Trough 323

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D. W. Holliday see S. A. Smith and D. W. Holliday 435

N. T. J. Hollingworth see A. B. Smith and N. T. J. Hollingworth 47

N. T. J. Hollingworth and M. J. Barker

Gastropods from the Upper Permian Zechstein (Cycle 1) reef of north-east England 347

H. C. Ivimey-Cook see A. Brandon, M. G. Sumbler and H. C. Ivimey-Cook 121

H. C. Ivimey-Cook and J. H. Powell

Late Triassic and early Jurassic biostratigraphy of the Felixkirk Borehole, North Yorkshire . . . . 367

P. C. Jackson The Dinantian stratigraphy of north-west Devon 447 R. Kanaris-Sotiriou, D. Millward and C. C. Rundle The Great Whinscale Dacite - an enigmatic lava flow from the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, English Lake District 393 J. D. Kantorowicz Lateral and vertical variations in pedogenesis and other early diagenetic phenomena Middle Jurassic Ravenscar Group, Yorkshire 61

J. A. King see D.G. Quirk, T. D.Ford, J. A. King, I. L.Roberts, R. B. Postance and I. Odell . . . 99

R. W. O'B. Knox

Ryazanian to Barremian mineral stratigraphy of the Speeton Clay in the southern North Sea Basin . . 255

R. W. O'B. Knox Reply to J. W. Neale. Discussion of "Ryazanian to Barremian mineral stratigraphy of the Speeton Clay

in the U.K. southern North Sea Basin" 461

M. R. Lee see M. S. Benzagouta and M. R. Lee 409

O. J. Martinsen see R. L. Brenner and O. J. Martinsen 149

R. Middleton and A. Grant

Heavy metals in the Humber estuary: Scrobicularia clay as a pre-industrial datum 75

D. Millward see R. Kanaris-Sotiriou, D. Millward and C. C. Rundle 393

J. W. Neale Discussion of "Ryazanian to Barremian mineral stratigraphy of the Speeton Clay in the U.K. southern North Sea Basin" 461

I. Odell see D. G. Quirk, T. D. Ford, J. A. King, I. L. Roberts, R. B. Postance and I. Odell . . . . 99

R. B. Postance see D. G. Quirk, T. D. Ford, J. A. King, I. L. Roberts, R. B. Postance and I. Odell . . 99

J. H. Powell see H. C. Ivimey-Cook and J. H. Powell 367

D. G. Quirk, T. D. Ford, J. A. King, I. L. Roberts, R. B. Postance and I. Odell

Enigmatic boulders and syn-sedimentary faulting in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Isle of Man 99

R. B. Rickards and M. J. Garratt Pfidoli grapolites from the Humevale Formation at Ghin Ghin and Cheviot, Victoria, Australia . . 41 (")

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J. B. Riding see S. Gowland and J. B. Riding 375

N. J. Riley

Stratigraphy of the Worston Shale Group, Dinantian, Craven Basin, north-west England 163

I. L. Roberts see D. G. Quirk, T. D. Ford, J. A. King, I. L. Roberts, R. B. Postance and I. Odell . . 99

D. E. Rogers and G. W. Stuart A seismic refraction study of the upper crustal structure of the Derbyshire Dome 265 M. Romano and D. A. Spears Bentonites from the Horton Formation (Upper Silurian) of Ribblesdale, Yorkshire 277

M. Romano and M. A. Whyte

Selenichnites, a new name for the ichnogenus Selenichnus Romano & Whyte, 1987 221

C. C. Rundle see R. Kanaris-Sotiriou, D. Millward and C. C. Rundle 393

A. B. Smith and N. T. J. Hollingworth

Tooth structure and phylogeny of the Upper Permian echinoid Miocidaris keyserlingi 47

D. B. Smith see D. Q. Bowen, D. B. Smith and G. A. Sykes 415

S. A. Smith and D. W. Holliday The sedimentology of the Middle and Upper Border Groups (Visean) of the Stonehaugh Borehole, Northumberland 435 D. A. Southwood

New bryozoan taxa from the Upper Permian Zechstein reef in N.E. England 33

D. A. Spears see M. Romano and D. A. Spears 277

E. Spinner see N. Turner and E. Spinner 81

E. G. Spinner Tricontactispora, a new genus of megaspores from the Namurian of the southern Pennines,

Derbyshire, England 143

G. W. Stuart see D. E. Rogers and G. W. Stuart 265

M. G. Sumbler see A. Brandon, M. G. Sumbler and H. C. Ivimey-Cook 121

G. A. Sykes see D. Q. Bowen, D. B. Smith and G. A. Sykes 415

G. A. Sykes see D. Q. Bowen and G. A. Sykes 463

J. W. Tilsley see C. H. C. Brunton and J. W. Tilsley 287

N. Turner and E. Spinner Palynological evidence for the age of the Coal Measures of the Titterstone Clee Coalfield, Shropshire, England 81 J. J. Walsh and J. Watterson New methods of fault projection for coalmine planning 209

J. Watterson see J. J. Walsh and J. Watterson 209

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F. Whitham The stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Ferriby, Welton and Burnham formations north of the Humber, north-east England 227

M. A. Whyte see M. Romano and M. A. Whyte 221

P. Wignall Depositional history and palaeoecology of the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary beds at South Ferriby, South Humberside 197

A. A. Wilson The Mercia Mudstone Group (Trias) of the East Irish Sea Basin (Presidential Address) 1

S. J. Wilson

The correlation of the Speeton Shell Bed, Filey Bay, Yorkshire, to an oxygen isotope stage . . . . 223

S. J. Wilson Reply to D. Q. Bowen and G. A. Sykes. Discussion of "The correlation of the Speeton Shell Bed,

Filey Bay, Yorkshire, to an oxygen isotope stage" 464

Annual Report for 1989 115

Annual Report for 1990 339

Field Meeting Report 1989 119

Medal Presentations 1989,1990 343

Obituaries 345,466

Society Activities 1989 117

Society Activities 1990 342

Index for Volume 48 467

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