Nature and timing of Late Mississippian to Mid-Pennsylvanian glacio-eustatic sea-level changes of the Pennine Basin, UK Colin N. Waters Daniel J. Condon 10.6084/m9.figshare.3452990.v1 https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Nature_and_timing_of_Late_Mississippian_to_Mid-Pennsylvanian_glacio-eustatic_sea-level_changes_of_the_Pennine_Basin_UK/3452990 <p>The Pennine Basin of northern England contains a comparatively complete Serpukhovian– Moscovian succession characterized by high-resolution ammonoid zonation and cyclic paralic sedimentation. Two new isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry zircon ages from a bentonite deposited during the Arnsbergian (mid-Serpukhovian) regional substage and tonstein of earliest Bolsovian (early Moscovian) regional substage have been determined. The weighted mean <sup>206</sup>Pb/<sup>238</sup>U ages of 328.34 ± 0.55 and 314.37 ± 0.53 Ma (total uncertainty), respectively, require modification of the time scale for the Western Europe regional chronostratigraphy. The areal extent of acme ammonoid facies is used as a proxy for the magnitude of 47 discrete flooding events. Incised valleys (major sequence boundaries) are used as a proxy for the magnitude of sea-level falls. The frequency of these events, in the light of the new radiometric dating, indicates the following: (1) there is temporal coincidence between major glaciations in Gondwana and phases of increased frequency of sequence boundaries in the Pennine Basin; (2) high-amplitude flooding surfaces have an average frequency of <em>c</em>. 400 ka; (3) average cycle durations during the Pendleian–early Arnsbergian and Chokierian–Bolsovian, of <em>c</em>. 111 and <em>c</em>. 150 ka, respectively, reflect short-duration eccentricities; (4) multiple flooding surfaces with the same ammonoid assemblages may equate with sub-100 ka precession or obliquity frequencies. </p> 2016-06-21 11:03:32 Pennine Basin ionization mass spectrometry zircon ages substage magnitude frequency sequence boundaries proxy UK acme ammonoid facies Arnsbergian Moscovian surface cyclic paralic sedimentation ka Geology