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Palaeo-Geography British Isles
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Lower Palaeozoici) Lower Palaeozoic - Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for plate collision
from Caledonian orogenic belt.
turbiditesgranites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts, folds
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Lower Palaeozoici) Lower Palaeozoic - Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for plate collision
from Caledonian orogenic belt.
turbiditesgranites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts, folds
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Lower Palaeozoici) Lower Palaeozoic - Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for plate collision
from Caledonian orogenic belt.
turbiditesgranites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts, folds
Ordovician
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Lower Palaeozoici) Lower Palaeozoic - Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for plate collision
from Caledonian orogenic belt.
turbiditesgranites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts, folds
Silurian
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Upper Palaeozoic (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the equator.
tropical seas [limestone] swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation] desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded sandstone, evaporites,
breccia] Devonian
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Upper Palaeozoic (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the equator.
tropical seas [limestone] swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation] desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded sandstone, evaporites,
breccia] Carboniferous
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Upper Palaeozoic (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the equator.
tropical seas [limestone] swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation] desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded sandstone, evaporites,
breccia]
Carboniferous
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Upper Palaeozoic (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the equator.
tropical seas [limestone] swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation] desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded sandstone, evaporites,
breccia] Permian
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Mesozoic Britain at 30o -
40oN; separation of Africa from America
extensive warm seas [limestone]
Jurassic
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Mesozoic Britain at 30o -
40oN; separation of Africa from America
extensive warm seas [limestone]
Cretaceous
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Cenozoic opening of north
Atlantic; Britain at 50o - 60oN; diverging plate
volcanism in NW Britain; glaciation
volcanism (flood basalts)
glaciation (glacial till)
Tertiary
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Cenozoic opening of north
Atlantic; Britain at 50o - 60oN; diverging plate
volcanism in NW Britain; glaciation
volcanism (flood basalts)
glaciation (glacial till)
Quaternary