| Computer Code: |
MSYT |
Preferred Map Code: |
MSY |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Devensian Stage (QD)
— Devensian Stage (QD) |
| Lithological Description: |
Extremely dense, moderate to pale reddish brown (Munsell Soil) cobbly sandy clay diamicton, mainly matrix-supported, with clasts predominantly of Borrowdale Volcanic Group lithologies (rhyolite, welded tuff, slate). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Generally a sharp, undulating to uneven, unconformable contact with bedrock, but locally a sharp, probably planar contact with extremely stiff, reddish brown, gravelly sandy clay diamicton of the Drigg Till Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Sharp, draped, unconformable contact with overlying thinly laminated (varved) silt and clay of the Stubble Green Silt Member of the Carleton Silt Formation. |
| Thickness: |
Up to 10 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
At depth in Lower Wasdale, western Lake District, Cumbria. |
| Parent Unit: |
Central Cumbria Glacigenic Subgroup (CCGL)
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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: |
| Type Section |
BNFL "off-site" borehole C, from 50.3 to 60.2 m depth. Nirex, 1997. |
| 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.] |
| Akhurst, M C, Chadwick, R A, Holliday, D W, McCormac, M, McMillan, A A, Millward, D, Young, B, Ambrose, K, Auton, C A, Barclay, W J, Barnes, R P, Beddoe-Stephens, B, James, J C W, Johnson, H, Jones, N S, Glover, B W, Hawkins, M P, Kimbell, G S, MacPherson, K A T, Merritt, J W, Milodowski, A E, Riley, N J, Robins, N S, Stone, P, and Wingfield, R T R. 1997. The geology of the west Cumbria district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 28, 37 and 47 (England and Wales). 138pp. |
| Trotter, F M, Hollingworth, S E, Eastwood T and Rose, W C C. 1937. Gosforth District. Geological Survey Memoir, England and Wales, Sheet 37. |
| NIREX. 1997. The Quaternary lithostratigraphy of the Sellafield district. UK Nirex Ltd. Report, No. SA/97/045. |
| 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 |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
