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PROCEEDINGS OF THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 179-196Publisher
GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBL HOUSE
DOI: 10.1144/pygs2016-374
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy [CGL2012-30922BTE]
- Geology and Regional Geophysics Directorate, BGS
- NERC [bgs05017] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bgs05017] Funding Source: researchfish
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The southernmargin of the Askrigg Block around Cracoe, North Yorkshire, shows a transition from carbonate ramp to reef-rimmed shelf margin, which, based on new foraminiferal/algal data, is now constrained to have initiated during the late Asbian. A late Holkerian to early Asbian ramp facies that included small mudmounds developed in comparatively deeper waters, in a transition zone between the proximal ramp, mudmound-free carbonates of the Scaleber Quarry LimestoneMember (Kilnsey Formation) and the distal Hodderense Limestone and lower Pendleside Limestone formations of the adjacent Craven Basin. The ramp is envisaged as structurally fragmented, associated with sudden thickness and facies changes. The late Asbian to early Brigantian apron reefs and isolated reef knolls of the Cracoe Limestone Formation include massive reef core and marginal reef flank facies, the latter also including development of small mudmounds on the deeper water toes of back-reef flanks. The position of the apron/knoll reefs is constrained to the south (hangingwall) of the North Craven Fault, but it is syn-depositional displacement on theMiddle Craven Fault that accounts for the thick reefal development. Subsequent inversion of this structure during the early Brigantian caused uplift and abandonment of the reefs and subsequent burial by the Bowland Shale Formation.
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