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Equatorial aridity and climatic oscillations during the early Carboniferous, southern Britain

Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, University of Reading, PO Box 227, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 2AB, UK

Evidence from palaeosols, palaeokarsts and styles of meteoric diagenesis shows that the early Carboniferous climate of southern Britain was dominantly seasonally semi-arid. This semi-aridity occurred while the region was in an equatorial palaeolatitudinal position. The cause of the seasonal aridity was possibly the deflection of easterly winds into a major low pressure zone set up over Gondwana during the southern hemisphere summer.

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