Postgraduate field trips

We invite participants to join the British Sedimentological Research Group annual postgraduate field trip to the spectacular Lake District. Come with us as Ben Kneller (University of Aberdeen) guides us through a range of environments, sedimentary and volcanic processes as the area evolved from a fore-arc to island arc setting.

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Overview 

The Ordovician and Silurian of the English Lake District captures the history of a microcontinental fragment as it rifted from Gondwana, migrated across the Iapetus Ocean and collided obliquely with Laurentia. The succession progresses from: a Lower to Middle Ordovician deepwater fore-arc succession dominated by mass movement (Skiddaw Group); through an Upper Ordovician calc-alkaline arc-related succession dominated by subaerial pyroclastic rocks and caldera lake sediments (Borrowdale Volcanic Group); through a Late Ordovician to Sheinwoodian post-arc ocean island shallow to deepwater stage; and ultimately to a foreland basin successor to the accretionary prism on the opposite side of Iapetus (Windermere Supergroup). On this trip we will visit examples of a range of gravity current deposits (subaqeous mass flows, turbidites and pyroclastic density currents) as well as inner (storm-dominated) to outer shelf and hemipelagic sediments that document this history.

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Capacity: 18 (students prioritised)   

Cost and what is included: £150 per head.

This includes 3 nights accommodation in Keswick and local transport by minibus. A pick up on the 24th (~5pm) and drop off on the 27th (~4pm), will be arranged from Penrith train station. Attendees responsible for their own transport to and from Penrith. Accommodation is a youth hostel in Keswick, with dorms (female only, male only, mixed), with a shared kitchen and fridge. Meals not included but are available from the hostel, but there are many shops and restaurants nearby.

 

Contact Jewel as soon as possible to register or for more information:

jewelprecious-rose.leefoon@manchester.ac.uk