2007 BSRG Postgraduate Fieldtrip

Organisation:
British Sedimentological Research Group

Date:
9th-11th November 2007

Venue:
Plas Dolau Guest House and Hostel, Aberystwyth, Mid-Wales

Workshop Leader:
Geraint Owen, School of Environment and Society, Swansea University

Overview:
As a renowned study area for deep water depositional systems and processes, the Palaeozoic Welsh Basin offers an opportunity to study a range of submarine slope styles. The Late Ordivician - early Silurian fill contains a succession of famously varying turbidites, mudstones and slump and slide sheets.

Potential Localities and aspects of interest:

•    New Quay to Borth: the classical coastal sections displaying turbidites which vary significantly in character
•    Cwm Blithus: Slumps and structural style of slump sheets
•    Cwm Ystwyth: Giant axial sand-rich turbidites punctuating thin-bedded background turbidites
•    Claerwen Valley: turbidite mudstones and laminated hemipelagites including black shales, from lower slope/ basin floor environments
•    Caban Channel conduit complex: stacked channel fill complexes featuring deep incisions and conglomerate fills

Further Information / Enquiries

Download the fieldtrip poster which includes costing

Download a registration form

Please do not hesitate to email Suzanne Bull or Tom Praeger for more information