Pennine Basin

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The Pennine Basin is a major geological sedimentary basin in northern England known for its extensive Carboniferous rock sequences and important coal and gritstone formations.

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Pennine Basin canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geological region
sedimentary basin
age Carboniferous
borderedBy Alston Block NERFINISHED
Askrigg Block NERFINISHED
Wales–Brabant High NERFINISHED
containsStratigraphicUnit Carboniferous Limestone NERFINISHED
Coal Measures
Millstone Grit Group NERFINISHED
country United Kingdom
developedDuring Mississippian
Pennsylvanian
extendsUnder Derbyshire NERFINISHED
Lancashire NERFINISHED
Northumberland NERFINISHED
Pennines NERFINISHED
Yorkshire NERFINISHED
geologicalPeriod Carboniferous NERFINISHED
hasDepositionalEnvironment carbonate platforms
deltaic systems
fluvial systems
shallow marine environments
hasEconomicImportance building stone quarrying
historical coal mining
hasEconomicResource coal
gritstone building stone
sandstone building stone
hasLithology coal
gritstone
limestone
mudstone
sandstone
hasStructuralFeature basin-margin highs
fault-controlled sub-basins
knownFor coal-bearing strata
extensive Carboniferous rock sequences
gritstone formations
locatedIn England
northern England NERFINISHED
overlainBy Permian strata
partOf Variscan foreland basins of northwest Europe
studiedInDiscipline sedimentology
stratigraphy
structural geology
tectonicSetting extensional basin
post-Variscan foreland basin
underlainBy Devonian and older basement rocks

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Millstone Grit stratigraphicUnitOf Pennine Basin