| Computer Code: |
HDBC |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Langsettian Substage (CA)
— Langsettian Substage (CA) |
| Lithological Description: |
The Hard Bed or Ganister Coal was formerly of high economic vale as an engine or domestic coal, worked principally in the western part of the coalfield. The roof of the seam is a distinctive layer of crushed goniatites (Listeri Marine Band). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Parent Unit: |
Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation (PLCM)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
Ganister Coal
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E077
E087
E086
E078
E070
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