Regional Setting
The Cheshire Basin is today one of the classic onshore localities in the UK for the study of Triassic red-bed fluvial and aeolian sandstone sequences, and provides important insights to the nature and evolution of deformation in continental clastic natural gas and petroleum reservoirs, such as those of the Rotliegend in the Southern North Sea Gas Basin and of the Sherwood Sandstone in the adjacent East Irish Sea Basin. Analogues for cemented cataclastic faults, which can compartmentalise reservoirs, are well displayed by the arrays of deformation bands within the Alderley outcrops.
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