BSRG PG Fieldtrip: Aberystwyth, Mid-Wales (2007)
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
Leader: Geraint Owen (School of Environment and Society, Swansea University)
Organisers: Suzanne Bull and Tom Praeger (Cardiff University)