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1 British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK
2 Department of Earth Sciences, The University, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Digital image processing techniques have been used to analyse the regional gravity and aeromagnetic datasets in central Britain. Colour and shaded-relief images have been generated which convey information on both anomaly amplitude (as colour) and anomaly gradient (as relief) and highlight structural trends, lineaments and textural contrasts not easily discernible on standard contour maps. We have identified some of the more important features and have tried to relate these to the evolution of the crust in each region. On a broad scale the images emphasize Caledonoid (ENE) trends to the north of the Solway line and both Tornquist (SE) and Caledonoid (NE to ENE) trends to the south. The pattern of magnetic anomalies over central England seems to define the extent of the shallow late Precambrian–early Palaeozoic basement of the Midlands Microcraton and delineates crustal elements and characteristic trends within it. Magnetic lineaments and the grain of gravity anomalies, trending in northeasterly and northwesterly directions on either side of the microcraton, seem to relate to structures which originated during the evolution of the Welsh and eastern English Caledonides respectively. Where Lower Palaeozoic and Precambrian rocks form the concealed ‘basement’, as in most of England, the gravity lineaments tend to reflect the influence of basement fractures on the subsequent pattern of sedimentation whereas many of the features on the magnetic images are more directly related to structures within the basement itself.
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