Previous ideas and models of the stratigraphy, structure and mineral deposits of the Manx Group, Isle of Man

Abstract

Since Bishop Wilson's [Wilson, Bishop T. (1772) The Works of Bishop T. Wilson, Cruttwell, Bath] account of the geology of the Isle of Man there has been a succession of increasingly sophisticated accounts of the Manx slates. Outlines were provided by Woods

Lithofacies of Lower Palaeozoic deep-marine sediments in the Isle of Man: a new map and stratigraphic model of the Manx Group

“…Fitches et al 1999). For example, Quirk & Kimbell (1997) and Quirk et al (1999b) have shown that the Isle of Man is traversed by major northeast-southwest and east-west faults, unrecognized by Simpson (1963), making the great lateral persistence of some of his stratigraphic units seem untenable (see Ford et al 1999). A solution to these problems was to resurvey the distribution of different rock types in the Manx Group, rather than the more subjective approach of assigning the rocks to formations and mapping their boundaries.…”