NE England field trip

Palaeoenvironments

Permian rocks of NE England, from the desert dunes blown onto an eroded surface of Coal Measures, to the limestone reefs and evaporite deposits of the hypersaline Zechstein Sea. The trip investigates the field evidence. This field trip extends over a large area, it assumed that the journey between the sites would be made by vehicle and be undertaken over several days.

Introduction

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