Article: The Upper Devonian Saltern Cove Goniatite Bed is an intraformational slump
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
15
Part:
3
Publication Date:
September
1972
Page(s):
430
–
438
Author(s):
Peter van Straaten and Maurice E. Tucker
Abstract
The Saltern Cove Goniatite Bed, which contains upper Frasnian conodonts, ostracods, and gonia-tites, is shown also to contain blocks of Famennian limestone and to lie within a sequence of Famennian sediments. From the sedimentology, it is considered that Famennian limestone clasts were reworked into Frasnian muds which were then transported en bloc into Famennian sediments. A Schwellen area (rise) nearby is suggested by the nature of the derived limestone blocks.