| Computer Code: |
LOXC |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Callovian Age (JC)
— Callovian Age (JC) |
| Lithological Description: |
[Obsolete: use PET] Fossiliferous pale grey and brown-grey bituminous mudstones with thin nodular limestones. See also the definition of the Peterborough Member (PET), and Horton (1989). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
As for the Peterborough Member (PET). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
As for the Peterborough Member (PET). |
| Thickness: |
0 to c.65m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Dorset to Humberside. |
| Parent Unit: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
Peterborough Member
|
| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Cox, B M, Hudson, J D, and Martill, D M. 1992. Lithostratigraphic nomenclature of the Oxford Clay (Jurassic). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 103, 343-345. |
| Gallois, R W, 1994. The geology of the country around King's Lynn and The Wash. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 145 and part of 129 (England and Wales). |
| Arkell, W J. 1947. The Geology of Oxford. 267pp. (Oxford: Clarendon Press.) |
| Horton, A. 1989. Geology of the Peterborough district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 158 (England & Wales). |
| Horton, A, Sumbler, M G, Cox, B M and Ambrose, K, 1995. Geology of the country around Thame. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 237 (England and Wales). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E144
E237
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