Talk:Wessex Basin

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Definition

It would be good to see an expansion of this article. However, anyone attempting it faces the tricky issue of nomenclature. The Wessex Basin and its sub-basins have been defined and named by different workers at different times. The Mesozoic depocentre to the south of the Purbeck Monocline is for instance variously known as: The English Channel Basin, The Channel Basin, The Central Channel Basin, The Portland-Wight Trough, The Portland-Wight Basin, The Portland-South Wight Basin, The South Wight Basin and I'm not sure that even that is an exhaustive list. Originally as defined the Wessex Basin included the Weald Basin, although they are generally separated now but the Pewsey Basin gets included as a sub-basin of the Wessex Basin although it actually makes more sense as an extension of the Weald Basin (there's no obvious high to divide them). The most recent discussion of this nomenclature mess is in this BGS report by Andrews (2014), see pages 24 & 25. Mikenorton (talk) 09:46, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Updated version

I've started to review the updated version of this article. I began by creating a new lithostratigraphic column, so that it contained information about the groups and formations, as I think that they are useful to have. The text is in need of a lot of work - I find some parts of it incomprehensible. I will be trying to improve it, but as some sections need a complete rewrite, it may take me some time. Mikenorton (talk) 19:52, 17 February 2019 (UTC)