RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Rapid marine transgressions and regressions of the Upper Permian Zechstein Sea
JF Journal of the Geological Society
JO Journal of the Geological Society
FD Geological Society of London
SP 155
OP 156
DO 10.1144/gsjgs.136.2.0155
VO 136
IS 2
A1 Smith, Denys B.
YR 1979
UL http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/136/2/155.abstract
AB Evidence bearing on the rates of transgression and regression of the early Zechstein Sea in NE England is reviewed and the hypothesis that this sea was formed virtually instantaneously when the Boreal Ocean broke into and flooded a chain of sub-sea-level inland drainage basins is restated. Subsequent formation of a thick marginal carbonate wedge was apparently followed by an unusually rapid marine recession, the cause of which is postulated as evaporative drawdown after renewed isolation of the Zechstein Sea. The possibility of other rapid Zechstein transgressions and recessions is briefly discussed.