Computer Code: |
PWYD |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
Status Code: |
Index Level |
Age range: |
Ediacaran Period (AD)
— Ediacaran Period (AD) |
Lithological Description: |
Strongly sheared and retrogressed hornblende-garnet amphibolites and subordinate felsic gneisses. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unknown. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Unknown, except unconformably overlain by lower Ordivician (Arenig) sediments. |
Thickness: |
Unknown. |
Geographical Limits: |
Sheet 133 (Aberdaron). |
Parent Unit: |
Sarn Complex (SRN)
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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 |
Eastern side of Parwyd Cove, Lleyn Peninsula. Gibbons W and McCarroll D, 1993. |
Reference(s): |
Shackleton, R M. 1956. Notes on the structure and relations of the Precambrian and Ordovician rocks of southwestern Lleyn (Carnarvonshire). Geological Journal, Vol.1. 400-409. |
Matley C A. 1928. The Pre-Cambrian complex and assocciated rocks of south-western Lleyn (Carnarvonshire). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 84, 440-501. |
Gibbons W. 2000. Braich-y-pwll to Parwyd. 174-179 in Precambrian Rocks of England and Wales. Carney J (Editor). Geological Conservation Review Series No 20. (Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee). |
Gibbons, W and Horak, J. 1990. Contrasting metamorphic terranes in northwest Wales. 315-327 in D'Lemos, R S, Strachan, R A and Topley, C G (editors),The Cadomian Orogeny. Geological Society of London Special Publication No.51. |
Gibbons W and McCarroll D. 1993. Geology of the country around Aberdaron, including Bardsey Island. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 133 (England and Wales). (London: H.M.S.O.). 88pp. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
E133
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