Computer Code: |
CSG |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
Status Code: |
Index Level |
Age range: |
Holkerian Substage (CQ)
— Asbian Substage (CR) |
Lithological Description: |
[Obsolete: use FELL] Massive sandstones, shales, and a few thin coals, with thin limestones and calcareous sandstones.
Obsolete term Craighill Sandstone Group is replaced by Fell Sandstone Formation. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn at the base of the Craighill Sandstone Group where sandstone rests conformably upon limestone of the Fell Sandstone Group. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Drawn at the conformable upward passage of sandstone of the Craighill Sandstone Group to sandstone with thicker limestone units of the Birdoswald Group. |
Thickness: |
233 metres approx. |
Geographical Limits: |
Brampton district. |
Parent Unit: |
none recorded or 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 |
Brampton district. |
Reference(s): |
Trotter, F M and Hollingworth, S E. 1932. The geology of the Brampton District. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheet 18. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
none recorded or not applicable |