The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Clap Round Facies Formation

Computer Code: CPR Preferred Map Code: CpR
Status Code: Pending Upgrade
Age range: Llandovery Epoch (SL) — Llandovery Epoch (SL)
Lithological Description: Interbedded thin turbidite sandstones and turbidite mudstones with burrowed hemipelagites.
Definition of Lower Boundary: No definition.
Definition of Upper Boundary: No definition.
Thickness: No definition.
Geographical Limits: Central Wales.
Parent Unit: Not Entered (?)
Previous Name(s): Monograptus-Sedgwickii Grits [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CPR] (-3321)
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Section  Crags on the southern slope of Clap Round, Rhayader. 
Reference(s):
Lapworth, H, 1900. The Silurian sequence at Rhayader. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol.56, p.67-137. 
Definition not published. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
E179