Dinantian
System | Series (NW Europe) |
Stage (NW Europe) |
Series (ICS) |
Stage (ICS) |
Age ( Ma )
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Permian | younger | ||||
Carboniferous | Silesian | Stephanian | Pennsylvanian | Gzhelian | 298.9–303.7 |
Kasimovian | 303.7–307.0 | ||||
Westphalian | Moscovian | 307.0–315.2 | |||
Bashkirian | 315.2–323.2 | ||||
Namurian | |||||
Mississippian
|
Serpukhovian | 323.2–330.9 | |||
Dinantian | Visean
|
Visean
|
330.9–346.7 | ||
Tournaisian | Tournaisian | 346.7–358.9 | |||
Devonian | older | ||||
Subdivisions of the Carboniferous system in Europe compared with the official ICS-stages (as of 2018) |
Dinantian is the name of a
Lower Carboniferous system in western Europe between 359.2 to 326.4 million years ago.[1] It can stand for a series of rocks in Europe
or the time span in which they were deposited.
The Dinantian is equal to the lower part of the
where strata of this age occur. The name is still used among European geologists.Earlier terms for the Dinantian were Bernician from the Anglo-Scottish borderland, and Avonian [2] (divided into upper (Kidwellian) and lower (Clevedonian) substages) from Kidwelly on the Welsh and Clevedon on the English sides of the Bristol Channel. [3][4]
References
- ^ "Dinantian". A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. Oxford Reference.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Avonian". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 67. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the