| Computer Code: |
PFIUC |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Pendleian Substage (CE)
— Pendleian Substage (CE) |
| Lithological Description: |
Thin, impersistent but easily recognisable coal seam in the Glasgow-Stirling region. Occasionally found in Kilsyth and Stirling area. Forsyth, 1962, states that: "when absent as coal, a prominent seat earth is found and the overlying shale (fissile mudstone) is thicker than found with adjacent coals". |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Thin coal or seat earth bed overlies Ashfield Coking Coal within Limestone Coal Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Possil Fourteen Inch Under Coal is overlain by thin "cyclothem" containing Possil Fourteen Inch Coal (PFI), Limestone Coal Formation. |
| Thickness: |
0.1m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Glasgow region of Midland Valley, Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Limestone Coal Formation (LSC)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Fourteen Inch Under Coal [Inappropriate Name And Code: Use PFIUC]
(FINUC)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Queenslie No.1 Borehole, 1949, Glasgow (NS66NE BH 85) at 513m depth. Forsyth and Read, 1962. |
| Reference(s): |
| Forsyth, I H and Read, W A. 1962. The Correlation of the Limestone Coal Group above the Kilsyth coking coal in the Glasgow-Stirling region. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain No.19, 29-52. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
