The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Llyn Shear Zone Complex
| Computer Code: | LSZ | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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| Status Code: | Pending Upgrade | ||
| Age range: | Ediacaran Period (AD) — Comley Series (EC) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Fine-grained, siliceous schists and phyllitic rocks containing porphyroclasts and larger bodies of sheared limestone, red phyllite and metamorphosed basaltic lavas. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Not applicable. The shear zone involves Neoproterozoic rocks. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Not applicable. Mostly involves pre-Arenig rocks but associated brittle faults penetrate the adjacent outcrops of Ordovician rocks. | ||
| Thickness: | Not applicable. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Lleyn Peninsula, but may connect offshore with the Berw Shear Zone Complex of Anglesey. Boundaries are tectonic and either gradational with, or locally faulted against rocks of the Gwna Group and the Sarn Complex. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Not Available (!) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Llyn Shear Zone Rocks (Undifferentiated) [Obsolete Name and Code: Use LSZ]
(-4172)
Penmynydd zone of metamorphism [Obsolete Name and Code: Use LSZ] (-2302) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | Lleyn Shear Zone |
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| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | Cliff section on, and to west of Trwyn Bychestyn. Gibbons, W and McCarroll, D. 1993. | ||
| Type Section | Foreshore, immediately south of Penrhyn Nefyn. Gibbons, W and McCarroll, D. 1993. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Gibbons, W. 1983. The Monian 'Penmynydd Zone of Metamorphism' in Llyn, North Wales. Geological Journal, Vol.18, 21-41. | |||
| Gibbons W and McCarroll D. 1993. Geology of the country around Aberdaron, including Bardsey Island. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 133 (England and Wales). (London: H.M.S.O.). 88pp. | |||
| Greenly, E. 1919. The geology of Anglesey, Vol 1. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (England and Wales). (London: H.M.S.O.). | |||
| Matley C A. 1928. The Pre-Cambrian complex and assocciated rocks of south-western Lleyn (Carnarvonshire). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 84, 440-501. | |||
| Gibbons, W. 1981. Glaucophanic amphibole in a Monian shear zone on the mainland of N Wales. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol.138, 139-143. | |||
| Gibbons, W. 1987. Menai Strait Fault System: An early Caledonian terrane boundary in North Wales. Geology, Vol.15, 744-747. | |||
| Gibbons, W. 1989. Basement-cover relationships around Aberdaron, Wales, U.K. : the fault reactivated northwestern margin of the Welsh Basin. Geological Magazine, Vol.126, 363-372. | |||
| Gibbons, W, Tietzch-Tyler, D, Horak, J M and Murphy, F C. 1994. Precambrian rocks in Anglesey, southwest Llyn and southeast Ireland. 75-84. In Gibbons, W and Harris, A L (editors), A revised correlation of Precambrian rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society of London Special Report No 22. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E133 E118 E134 | |||