GCSE Geology Paleo-geography of the British Isles

1. British Isles

2. Lower Palaeozoic
 i) Lower Palaeozoic -
 Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for
plate collision
 from Caledonian orogenic
belt.
 turbidites
 granites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts,
folds

3. Lower Palaeozoic
 i) Lower Palaeozoic -
 Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for
plate collision
 from Caledonian orogenic
belt.
 turbidites
 granites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts,
folds

4. Lower Palaeozoic Ordovician
 i) Lower Palaeozoic -
 Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for
plate collision
 from Caledonian orogenic
belt.
 turbidites
 granites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts, f
olds

5. Lower Palaeozoic Silurian
 i) Lower Palaeozoic -
 Britain was south of the
equator: evidence for
plate collision
 from Caledonian orogenic
belt.
 turbidites
 granites, regional
metamorphism, thrusts,
folds

6. Upper Palaeozoic
 (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the
equator.
 tropical seas [limestone]
 swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation]
 desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded
sandstone, evaporites,
 breccia]
Devonian

7. Upper Palaeozoic
 (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the
equator.
 tropical seas [limestone]
 swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation]
 desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded
sandstone, evaporites,
 breccia]
Carboniferous

8. Upper Palaeozoic
 (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the
equator.
 tropical seas [limestone]
 swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation]
 desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded
sandstone, evaporites,
 breccia]
Carboniferous

9. Upper Palaeozoic
 (ii) Upper Palaeozoic -
Britain drifts across the
equator.
 tropical seas [limestone]
 swamp forest [deltas, coal
formation]
 desert conditions 15oN
[wind-formed dune-bedded
sandstone, evaporites,
 breccia]
Permian

10. Mesozoic
 Britain at 30o - 40oN;
separation of Africa
from America
 extensive warm seas
[limestone]
Jurassic

11. Mesozoic
 Britain at 30o - 40oN;
separation of Africa
from America
 extensive warm seas
[limestone]
Cretaceous

12. Cenozoic
 opening of north
Atlantic; Britain at 50o
- 60oN; diverging plate
 volcanism in NW
Britain; glaciation
 volcanism (flood
basalts)
 glaciation (glacial till)
Tertiary

13. Cenozoic
 opening of north
Atlantic; Britain at 50o
- 60oN; diverging plate
 volcanism in NW
Britain; glaciation
 volcanism (flood
basalts)
 glaciation (glacial till)
Quaternary