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IV.—Datum-lines in the English Keuper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. L. Sherlock
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In the almost complete absence of fossils in the British Keuper there has been a lack of datum-lines in that formation by which we may compare the horizons of different sections. Yet in such a thick and widely spread deposit it is very desirable to have subdivisions enabling us to give the particular part of the Keuper to which a section belongs. In deposits such as the New Red formations too great stress has been laid on lithology, inevitable perhaps in the scarcity of fossils, but a source of grave errors in correlation. For example, Mr. L. J. Wills thinks that fossils found in the Keuper of Warwick have affinity, not with the Keuper, but with the Muschelkalk of Germany. Again, there are strata in the Permo-Bunter of Nottinghamshire which might be mistaken for Keuper Waterstones, if only lithology was considered. Over small areas a band of sandstone with some peculiarities may be used as a datum-line, as in the Arden district of Warwickshire and in Nottinghamshire, but these are of local value only.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 1918 , pp. 120 - 125
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1918

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