Lyell Collection
Journal of the Geological Society
Lyell Centre  |   Lyell Collection  |   Subscriptions   |   Geological Society  |   Email alerts  |   Online bookshop  |   Help

Keywords:
Author:
Advanced search>>
This Article
Right arrow Figures Only
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by PEARSON, M. J.
Right arrow Articles by RUSSELL, M. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
GeoRef
Right arrow GeoRef Citation
Journal of the Geological Society; 2000; v. 157; issue.2; p. 471-482
© 2000 Geological Society of London

Paper

Subsidence and erosion in the Pennine Carboniferous Basin, England: lithological and thermal constraints on maturity modelling

MICHAEL J. PEARSON1 & MARIE A. RUSSELL1

1 Organic & Petroleum Geochemistry Group, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Kings College, Meston Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, UK, (e-mail: m.j.pearson{at}abdn.ac.uk)

Forward modelling of maturity against vitrinite reflectance and chemical data for a number of onshore boreholes was used to test a range of subsidence and thermal histories for the Pennine Carboniferous Basin. The preferred models suggest maximum palaeotemperatures were reached during late Cretaceous or possibly early Tertiary burial, consistent with the outcome of previous apatite fission-track studies. Models in which maximum palaeotemperature was attained in the late Carboniferous are considered less likely: rapid burial under a normal heat flow requires an unrealistic thickness of missing late Westphalian strata, whilst high regional heat flow is incompatible with the observed vitrinite reflectance gradients. The lithologies assumed for missing strata have a significant influence on the range of estimates of eroded thicknesses. Preferred estimates of Cenozoic erosion range from around 1.6 km in Mesozoic basinal areas to around 2.8 km within areas of present Carboniferous outcrop.


Keywords: Carboniferous, vitrinite reflectance, maturity, subsidence, erosion.




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Journal of Sedimentary ResearchHome page
S. Tyrrell, P.D.W. Haughton, J.S. Daly, T.F. Kokfelt, and D. Gagnevin
The Use of the Common Pb Isotope Composition of Detrital K-Feldspar Grains as a Provenance Tool and Its Application to Upper Carboniferous Paleodrainage, Northern England
Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2006; 76: 324 - 345.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]