Reply to comment on ‘Rivers of the Variscan Foreland: fluvial morphodynamics in the Pennant Formation of South Wales, UK’

We are pleased to see that our recent work to apply paleohydrological methods to the fluvial deposits of the Pennant Sandstone in South Wales has sparked discussion on the applicability of such techniques to stratigraphy. The Pennant Sandstone is an important stratigraphic unit in the tectono-climatic history of the United Kingdom (Kelling 1974; Jones 1977; Hartley and Warr 1990; Jones and Hartley 1993; Burgess and Gayer 2000; Opluštil and Cleal 2007), and we are enthusiastic about what these fluvial strata tell us about foreland basin river evolution during the Variscan Orogeny. We are therefore happy to respond to the discussion raised by Jones and Collinson and to defend our methods and conclusions.