| Computer Code: |
BOF |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Eocene Epoch (GE)
— Oligocene Epoch (GO) |
| Lithological Description: |
Kaolinitic clays, sandy and silty clays, silts, lignites and sands. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Underlain along its eastern outcrop and south of Newton Abbot by the Aller Gravel and the Upper Greensand. Elsewhere unconformable upon, or faulted against, Devonian, Carboniferous or Permian Rocks. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
The original top of the Formation is not preserved, and its eroded top now forms the land surface, underlying the modern soil. |
| Thickness: |
To 1200 m (Curry et al., 1978). |
| Geographical Limits: |
Restricted to the Bovey Basin in Devon. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Applicable (-)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
The Bovey Basin - low-lying ground south of Bovey Tracey to the area of Newton Abbot (Devon). Selwood et al., 1984. |
| Partial Type Section |
Cuttings for the Kingsteignton to Newton Abbot bypass. Brunsden, 1976. |
| Reference(s): |
| Selwood, E B, Edwards, R A, Simpson, S, Chesher, J A, Hamblin, R J O, Henson, M R, Riddolls, B W and Waters, R A. 1984. Geology of the countryside around Newton Abbot. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 339 (England and Wales). |
| Curry, D, Adams, C G, Boulter, M C, Dilley, F C, Eames, F E, Funnell, B M, and Wells, M K. 1978. A Correlation of Tertiary rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society of London Special Publication, Vol. 12, 1-72. |
| Brunsden, D, Doornkamp, J C, Green, C P, and Jones, D K C. 1976. Tertiary and Cretaceous sediments in solution pipes in the Devonian limestone of south Devon, England. Geological Magazine, Vol. 113, 441-447. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E339
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