The palaeoecology of the goniatite bed at Cowlow Nick, Castleton, Derbyshire

Volume / Part: 8 / 1
Publication Date: January 1965
Page(s): 186 - 191
Authored By: Trevor David Ford

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The Cowlow Nick Goniatite Bed is shown to be an accumulation of randomly oriented, hollow, or spar-filled goniatite shells of several species in a matrix of calcilutite. Of very limited dimensions, the bed is surrounded by algal limestones of the fore-reef fades of Upper B2 age (Lower Carboniferous). Suggestions as to the mode of accumulation are discussed and it is concluded that the bed represents a specialized drifted assemblage of floating shells which were washed gently into an inactive surge channel or submarine cave. Some comparable occurrences elsewhere in Derbyshire are noted.

Palaeontology - Volume 8 Part 1 Pages 186-191

Palaeontology - Volume 8 Part 1 Pages 186-191

Citations

FORD, T. 1965. The palaeoecology of the goniatite bed at Cowlow Nick, Castleton, Derbyshire. Palaeontology, 8, 1, 186–191.