Reply to the discussion by J.W.F. Waldron and C.E. White on “Geochemical signature of Ordovician Mn-rich sedimentary rocks on the Avalonian shelf”1Appears in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012, 49(6): 772–774 [doi: 10.1139/e2012-004].

Author:

Romer Rolf L.1,Kroner Uwe2

Affiliation:

1. Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany.

2. TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Department of Geology, B. v. Cotta Str. 2, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany.

Abstract

In their comment, Waldron and White state that manganese-rich sedimentary rocks of Nova Scotia and Wales are Cambrian and were deposited in a deep-water turbidite basin called “Megumia” rather than on the Avalonian shelf. Available geochronological data are not in conflict with an Early Ordovician deposition age for manganese-rich sedimentary rocks north of the Rheic suture, including those of Nova Scotia and northern Wales. “Megumia” is part of the Avalonian plate, and the manganese-rich sediments were deposited on its shelf.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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