Elucidating hydrological complexity and climate-influenced diagenesis during the early Carboniferous of South Wales |
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| Authors: | NJ Hogancamp VP Wright |
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| Institution: | 1. Hess Corporation, 1501 McKinney Street, Houston, TX, 77010, USA;2. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Houston, Houston, 77204, TX, USA;3. Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF10 3NP, UK |
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| Abstract: | A revised age provided by conodonts from the Gilwern Oolite of the Clydach area of South Wales allows a clearer understanding of the palaeohydrology, palaeoclimatic history and diagenesis of previously correlated oolitic units. Earlier uncertainty over the apparent sub-regional differences in climate during the early Visean (Chadian—Arundian) lowstand is resolved. Previously a humid interval evidenced by prominent palaeo-epikarst capping the Gilwern Oolite along the northern outcrops of the South Wales synclinorium, was not recognized in what were regarded as correlative outcrops in the Chadian Gully Oolite in the southern part of the synclinorium. Conodont dating now shows that the Gilwern Oolite is much older (Courceyan) than the Chadian Gully Oolite, and during the prolonged exposure of the former there was an interval of weathering under a humid climate. This also explains the contrast between the diagenesis seen between the Gilwern and Gully oolites, which are no longer seen as correlatives. |
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| Keywords: | Carboniferous Mississippian South Wales Conodonts Diagenesis Subaerial exposure |
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