| Computer Code: |
KLN |
Preferred Map Code: |
Kln |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
Massive, crystal-rich, eutaxitic dacitic lapilli-tuff. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Base of dacitic tuff that rests with unconformity on an erosion surface in the Dunnerdale Sandstone Formation (volcaniclastic sandstone) and locally on the Wallowbarrow Tuff Formation (andesitic lapilli-tuff). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Contact with overlying volcaniclastic sandstone, or Paddy End Member of the Lickle Tuff Formation. |
| Thickness: |
70 to 180m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Within the Ulpha Basin. Between Wallowbarrow Heald (SD 210 970), Turner Hall (SD 230 960) to Great Stickle (SD 211 915) and Lickle Valley (SD 240 920), Cumbria. |
| Parent Unit: |
Lickle Tuff Formation (LICK)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Kiln Bank Member [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KLN]
(-4127)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Dunnerdale Fells. Between Yew Pike (SD 204 925) and Stickle Tarn (SD 213 928) and from Tarn Hill (SD 2080 9197) to Great Stickle (SD 2117 9159). |
| Reference(s): |
| Millward, D, Johnson, E W, Beddoe-Stephens, B, Young, B, Kneller, B C, Lee, M K, Fortey, N J, Allen, P M, Branney, M J, Cooper, D C, Hirons, S, Kokelaar, B P, Marks, R J, McConnell, B J, Merritt, J W, Molyneux, S G, Petterson, M G, Roberts, B, Rundle, C C, Rushton, A W A, Scott, R W, Soper, N J, and Stone, P. 2000. Geology of the Ambleside district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, England and Wales, Sheet 38. |
| Mitchell, G H, 1956. (Undivided Lickle Rhyolites). The Borrowdale Volcanic Series of the Dunnerdale Fells, Lancashire. Liverpool and Manchester Geological Journal, Vol.1, p.428-449. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E038
E048
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