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The recognition of the base of the Westphalian D Stage in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. J. Cleal
C. J. Cleal
Affiliation:
Nature Conservancy Council, Geological Conservation Review Unit, Pearl House, Bartholomew Street, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5LS
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Abstract

The I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy recommends that the base of the Westphalian D is best recognized using plant macrofossils. In Britain, however, South Wales is the only coalfield where the distribution of the plants is sufficiently well known for them to be used to locate this boundary. Elsewhere in Britain other criteria have been used, particularly non-marine bivalves and plant microfossils, but these must be regarded with considerable caution.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 121 , Issue 2 , March 1984 , pp. 125 - 129
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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