Russell S. Arthurton

Melton Mowbray Hospital

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D. J. C. Mundy

Woodside (Australia)

Cecilie Mauritzen

Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Craig Wallace

University of East Anglia

Débora Iglesias-Rodriguez

University of California, Santa Barbara

Ulrich Bathmann

Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Vjacheslav V. Gordeev

Hartwig Kremer

Max Planck Society

Margaret A. Sparrow

Oregon State University

D. B. Smith

Durham University

David S. Brew

Royal HaskoningDHV (United Kingdom)

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University of Plymouth

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

University of East Anglia

British Antarctic Survey

British Geological Survey

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

University of the Faroe Islands

Norwich Research Park

University of Southampton

Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

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The Ribblesdale fold belt, NW England—a Dinantian-early Namurian dextral shear zone

Geological Society London Special Publications (1984)

Russell S. Arthurton

Summary Folds and faults in various en échelon patterns affect the Tournaisian-early Namurian sedimentary rocks of the Craven basin, a rift basin which includes Dinantian and possibly late Devonian strata some 5 km thick. The structures are interpreted as a response to regional dextral shear, which accompanied sedimentation from mid-Dinantian to early Namurian times at least. The principal Ribblesdale folds are viewed as products, in the Carboniferous cover, of primary wrenching on inherited fractures in the Lower Palaeozoic basement. Some en échelon sets of minor folds are regarded as products of secondary wrenching in the axial zones of ‘primary’ folds. The block-basin transition zone south of the North Craven fault appears to have been affected by dextral transtension during the late Brigantian (late Dinantian).

10.1144/gsl.sp.1984.014.01.13

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Rapid Holocene Evolution and Neotectonics of the Albanian Adriatic Coastline

Journal of Coastal Research (1999)

Steve Mathers David S. Brew Russell S. Arthurton

High-resolution 1986 Landsat TM images of the Adriatic coast of Albania have been compared with aerial photographs obtained in 1943, and published literature, in order to decipher the sedimentary architecture and evolution of the late-Holocene deposits of the coastal plain. This coastline is microtidal and dominated by wave action; and abundant sediment is supplied by rivers draining the uplifted mountainous interior of this tectonically active region. The coastal plain has prograded up to 40 km since relative sea level rise slowed down around 6000 years BP. The inland parts of the coastal plain are dominated by parallel storm beach ridges whilst the coastal fringe exhibits a diversity of symmetrical to asymmetrical wave-dominated deltas and spit-deltas encompassing cut-off lagoons. A genetic model to explain the variability of wave-dominated deltas on the Albanian coast is proposed showing a spectrum of forms between prograding symmetrical cuspate deltas formed by bi-directional longshore drift and highly asymmetrical spit deltas formed by uni-directional longshore drift. Avulsive switching causes abandonment; the symmetrical forms become smoothed out by wave action whereas the spit-deltas become detached barrier beaches that migrate onshore by washover, welding themselves onto the coast. The back barrier cut-off lagoons in this setting have a very low preservation potential. Two much larger lagoons, now partly reclaimed, at Karavasta and Narta, lie within the belt of beach ridges; both have a straight seaward margin parallel to known post-Neogene faulting. The lagoons exhibit differential subsidence which is regarded as neotectonic in origin; the presence of a 60 km long graben or half graben structure linking the two areas of subsidence is suggested to explain the observed phenomena. Subsidence up to 5-10 m is indicated within the last 1,000- 2,000 years.

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Permian

Geological Society London Memoirs (1992)

D. B. Smith J. C. Taylor Russell S. Arthurton Michael E. Brookfield K. W. Glennie

Abstract Permian strata in the British Isles crop out mainly in northern and central England but are extensive in the subsurface both on land and in several adjoining offshore areas. Their base is defined as in Smith et al. (1974) and their top is within red beds, overlying the Zechstein evaporites. We emphasize that both the base and the top of the nominally Permian rocks lie in continental strata almost devoid of stratigraphically useful fossils and that, accordingly, these boundaries are only doubtfully correlated with internationally acceptable biostratigraphic standards. Subdivision of British Permian strata into Lower and Upper series follows the traditional view summarized by Smith et al. (1974). The junction between the series is taken at the incoming of marine strata in northern England and adjoining offshore areas, and at approximately equivalent levels in continuous continental sequences elsewhere; recent limited palynological studies suggest that the early Permian-late Permian transition adopted here and in most of northwest Europe may be mid or late Kazanian or even Tatarian in age which is somewhat younger than the base-Kazanian/Ufimian position taken in more continuous marine sequences. There has been no comprehensive revision of the stratigraphy and nomenclature of early Permian strata in and around the British Isles since the work of Smith et al. (1974) and Rhys (1974), but these aspects of the early Permian continental deposits of several cuvettes and inland drainage basins in southwest Scotland were reviewed by Brookfield (1978) and the age of continental deposits in the Elgin area was reconsidered

10.1144/gsl.mem.1992.013.01.10

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THE ST. BEES EVAPORITES—A CARBONATE-EVAPORITE FORMATION OF UPPER PERMIAN AGE IN WEST CUMBERLAND, ENGLAND

Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (1971)

Russell S. Arthurton J. E. Hemingway

Summary Three cycles of carbonate-evaporite rocks, principally dolomite and anhydrite, were formed in the St. Bees Head–Egremont area of West Cumberland in Upper Permian times. Miospores and macrofauna from the lower two cycles indicate an approximate correlation with the EZ 1 , and EZ 2 cycles of the English Zechstein. The deposits appear to have been laid down on a tectonically active platform of Carboniferous rocks flanking the Lower Palaeozoic Lake District massif, and marginal to the Manx–Furness sedimentary basin. In each cycle a transgressive and a regressive phase are recognized. The criteria upon which this recognition is based are described and discussed, along with those employed in the interpretation of sedimentary environment. The case for a thickening of the formation towards the centre of the Manx–Furness basin is argued.

10.1144/pygs.38.4.565

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Experimentally produced halite compared with Triassic layered halite‐rock from Cheshire, England

Sedimentology (1973)

Russell S. Arthurton

ABSTRACT The experimental evaporation of brine in shallow vessels shows that layered halite can form by the overgrowth of crystals in mats that have foundered from their initial position of growth at the brine‐air interface; by the upward and lateral growth of crystals that have nucleated on the floor; and by the overgrowth on detrital halite. Each of these processes, and its resultant crystal fabric, is described in relation to the environmental factors which influence it. The fabrics of primary halite crystals in layered halite‐rock and associated deposits from the Lower Keuper Saliferous Beds of the Cheshire Basin are described and compared with those of the experimentally produced halite. Some of the ancient halite‐rock may be matched with floor‐nucleated crystals, and some with detrital halite; none can be shown to have grown from foundered mats. The halite‐rock is regarded as having formed in shallow brine bodies, perhaps only a few centimetres deep, but of unknown extent, whilst the presence of planar solution or deflation surfaces at the top of the layered units, and disruptions in bedding similar to buckled salt‐crust structures, point to periodic and perhaps prolonged emergence.

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10.1111/j.1365-3091.1973.tb01611.x

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Geology of the country around Settle

Russell S. Arthurton Erlend Johnson D. J. C. Mundy

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Rhythmic sedimentary sequences in the triassic Keuper Marl (mercia mudstone group) of cheshire, northwest England

Geological Journal (1980)

Russell S. Arthurton

Abstract Cored boreholes in the central part of the Cheshire‐Shropshire basin form the basis of a sedimentological description of three separate parts of the Keuper Marl succession. The uppermost sequence examined is the lower part of the Middle Keuper Marl within which blocky silty mudstones and well laminated mudstones and siltstones form a rhythmically alternating pattern. Similar alternating patterns are described from the Lower Keuper Saliferous Beds and the top of the Lower Keuper Marl although, in these, the alternations are interrupted to various degrees by halite rock. The blocky and laminated facies are considered to have accumulated in emergent and flooded conditions respectively, the alternations reflecting eustatic variation.

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10.1002/gj.3350150106

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Ocean & Coastal Management (1998)

Russell S. Arthurton

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10.1016/s0964-5691(98)00077-5

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Review of agricultural pollution in the Caribbean with particular emphasis on small island developing states

Marine Pollution Bulletin (1998)

Barry Rawlins A. Ferguson P.J. Chilton Russell S. Arthurton John Rees

Agricultural Pollution

10.1016/s0025-326x(98)00054-x

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Late Quaternary Coastal Stratigraphy on a Platform-Fringed Tropical Coast - a Case Study from Zanzibar, Tanzania

Journal of Coastal Research (1999)

Russell S. Arthurton A. Brampton C. Z. Kaaya Mohamed Soussi

The coasts of Zanzibar's islands, in common with those of the adjacent African mainland coast, are formed largely of Stage 5e Pleistocene limestones of back-reef facies. The limestones form typically undercut cliffs and associated wavecut platforms, commonly more than 1km wide. Where not masked by the deposits of beach ridge plains, the platforms coincide with the contemporary intertidal zone. This coincidence might suggest that the platforms are mid-late Holocene products, formed since the post-late-Weichselian glacial sea level attained its current highstand position. However, the present extremely slow rates of limestone cliff recession due to marine erosion, together with the existence, at the landward margin of the platform, of well lithified beach rocks of lithologies markedly different to those of the contemporary beach sands, indicate that most of the platform erosion occurred pre-Holocene. A sea-level stillstand period, following the peak of the Stage 5e highstand, is suggested. The overwashing of a pre-existing platform as a consequence of Holocene sea-level rise would have significantly and abruptly increased the area of intertidal to shallow subtidal habitats and thus the potential for the increased production of calcium carbonate sediment derived from that biota. The impact on the platform environment of predicted sea-level rise over the next century would be to create an extensive shallow subtidal environment promoting the growth of the calcareous green alga, Halimeda, coral mounds and small patch reefs. The beach ridge plains would become increasingly vulnerable to erosion.

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