| Computer Code: |
KWSG |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Devensian Stage (QD)
— Devensian Stage (QD) |
| Lithological Description: |
Clast-supported gravel with subrounded to rounded clasts up to cobble grade of Borrowdale Volcanic Group igneous rocks, siltstone, lithic sandstone; some red sandstone, white sandstone, coal and granite. Sparse (reworked) shell fragments and dinoflagellate cysts present in sandier parts of the unit. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
At its type section it overlies till of the Seascale Glacigenic Formation; elsewhere its basal contact is not seen, but the unit occurs stratigraphically above possible Winney Hill Coppice Clay Member of the Aikbank Glacigenic Formation in the Kirkton Wood West Section [log NY00SE(S) ME 166; Nirex Science Report SA/97/045 (Issue 2.0) 1997]. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Unconformably overlain by the Drigg Beach Till Member of the the Gosforth Glacigenic Formation, with the uppermost c.0.3m (below the contact) pervasively sheared. |
| Thickness: |
6.8m thick at its type section. |
| Geographical Limits: |
1:50k Sheet 37 Gosforth. Drigg to Santon Bridge area, western Cumbria. |
| Parent Unit: |
Gosforth Glacigenic Formation (GOGL)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Shelly sands at 50ft OD [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KWSG, DGHS]
(-3989)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
c.3.1m of sand and gravel with shell fragments exposed near the base of a degraded river cliff in Kirkland Wood, eastern side of River Irt, 600m north of Kirklands Farm, c.1km northeast of Holmrook village, west Cumbria. |
| Type Section |
Between 13.2 - 20.0m depth in Nirex QBH boreholes 2 and 2a (BGS Registered borehole SD09NE 21) at Hall Carleton, c.1km southeast of Drigg village, Cumbria. |
| Reference(s): |
| Merritt, J W and Auton, C A. 1997. Quaternary lithostratigraphy of the Sellafield district. Nirex Science Report SA/97/045 (Issue 2.0). [Report prepared for UK Nirex Ltd. 69pp, 5 tables, 20 figures, 14 enclosures and one appendix.] |
| Merrit, J W and Auton, C A. 2000. An outline of the lithostratigraphy and depositional history of Quaternary deposits in the Sellafield district, west Cumbria. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol.53, 129-154 |
| Nirex Science Report SA/97/038 (Issue 2.0). 1997. Logging and interpretation of Quaternary boreholes (QBH) drilled in the Sellafield area during 1996. |
| Trotter, F M, Hollingworth, S E, Eastwood T and Rose, W C C. 1937. Gosforth District. Geological Survey Memoir, England and Wales, Sheet 37. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
