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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
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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.
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