| Computer Code: |
KNTS |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Thanetian Age (GT)
— Thanetian Age (GT) |
| Lithological Description: |
The Kentish Sands Member mostly comprises silty fine-grained sand, becoming more clayey downwards. It is mainly non-calcareous.
Probably early to mid-Thanetian in age, based on dinoflagellate cysts and its inferred lateral passage into the upper part of the Pegwell Silt Member (King, in prep.). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| 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: |
Mid-Kent westwards. |
| Parent Unit: |
Thanet Formation (TAB)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Kentish Sands [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KNTS]
(-5086)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Aldiss, D T. 2014. The stratigraphical framework for the Palaeogene successions of the London Basin, UK. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/14/008. 95 pp. |
| Haynes, J. 1956. Certain smaller British Paleocene foraminifera. Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for foraminiferal research, Vol. 7, 79-101. |
| King, C. in prep. A revised correlation of Palaeogene and Neogene deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society of London Special Report. |
| Daley, B. 1999. London Basin: eastern localities, In: Daley, B, Balson, P (Eds.), British Tertiary Stratigraphy. Geological Conservation Review Series 15, pp. 23-72. |
| Ward, D J. 1977. The Thanet Beds exposure at Pegwell Bay, Kent. Tertiary Research, Vol. 1, p. 69-76. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
