| Computer Code: |
LIB |
Preferred Map Code: |
Lib |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Kinderscoutian Substage (CK)
— Kinderscoutian Substage (CK) |
| Lithological Description: |
A thinly to thickly bedded, grey, fine-grained, shelly sandstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
A sharp upward change in a conformable succession from predominantly grey mudstone to sandstone. The base of the first sandstone bed in an argilaceous succession above the Agill Sandstone where present, or the base of the first sandstone bed above the Cayton Gill Shell Bed. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
A sharp upward change in a conformable succession from sandstone to predominantly mudstone. The top of the last sandstone bed below the Ure Shell Bed. |
| Thickness: |
From 0 to 55 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
The Pennines west of Masham. |
| Parent Unit: |
Hebden Formation (HEBD)
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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: |
| Reference Section |
Hack Fall Gorge on the River Ure, Yorkshire. Wilson and Thompson, 1965 |
| Reference(s): |
| Wilson, A A. 1960. The carboniferous rocks of Coverdale and adjacent valleys in the Yorkshire Pennines. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. Vol 32, 285-316. |
| Wilson, A A and Thompson, A T. 1965. The Carboniferous section in the Kirkby Malzeard area, Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. Vol 35, 203-227. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E051
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