| Computer Code: |
AD |
Preferred Map Code: |
AD |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Kinderscoutian Substage (CK)
— Kinderscoutian Substage (CK) |
| Lithological Description: |
A brown, medium-to-coarse-grained, thinly to thickly bedded, quartzo-feldspathic, flaggy, micaceous sandstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
A sharp upward change in a conformable succession from predominantly grey mudstone to sandstone. The base of the first sandstone above the Reticuloceras todmordense (R1a4) Marine Band (if recognised) or the Cayton Gill Shell Bed. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
A sharp upward change in a conformable succession from sandstone to predominantly mudstone. The top of the last sandstone below the Reticulatum-Vallites striolatus (R1c) Marine Band (where identified) or below the coarse-grained and pebbly Addingham Edge Grit. |
| Thickness: |
Up to 50 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
The Pennine foothills, between Leeds, Bradford and Harrogate. |
| Parent Unit: |
Hebden Formation (HEBD)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
Caley Crags Grit
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| Stratotypes: |
| Partial Type Section |
Stockeld Farm Borehole SE34NE/6, near Wetherby, North Yorkshire; between 102.1 m and 108.8 m depth. Cooper and Burgess, 1993. |
| Partial Type Section |
Section in Scarah Quarry, near Ripley, North Yorkshire showing uppermost 15m of unit; top not seen. Cooper and Burgess, 1993. |
| Reference(s): |
| Edwards, W Mitchell, GH and Whitfield, TH. 1950. Geology of the district north and east of Leeds. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, sheet 70 (England and Wales). |
| Cooper, A H and Burgess, I C. 1993. Geology of the country around Harrogate. Memoir for 1:50000 geological sheet 62 (England and Wales). London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E069
E070
E062
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