Mass-wasting of ancient aeolian dunes and sand fluidization during a period of global warming and inferred brief high precipitation: the Hopeman Sandstone (late Permian), Scotland

Andrew Hurst, Kenneth W. Glennie

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Abstract

Large-scale deformation structures in late Permian aeolian dune sands are associated with sand fluidization and injection. Exceptional precipitation and flooding of the desert margin are believed to have caused mass-wasting by gravitational collapse and sliding of water-saturated dunes, which loaded down-dip strata, thus generating overpressure and triggering sand injection. This short-lived but heavy precipitation seems to have been associated with a climatic change from arid Rotliegend dune deposition to widespread Zechstein marine conditions within the greater North Sea area, probably just before or coinciding with deposition of the rapidly expanding marine Kupferschiefer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)274-279
Number of pages6
JournalTerra Nova
Volume20
Issue number4
Early online date28 Jun 2008
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2008

Keywords

  • Utah
  • deformation
  • Europe
  • scale

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