| Computer Code: |
RTDI |
Preferred Map Code: |
Symbol |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Ipswichian Stage (QI)
— Ipswichian Stage (QI) |
| Lithological Description: |
Stourbridge: Sand and pebbly sand with gravel lenses.
Fluvial: possibly deposited by the proto-Stour River in Stourbridge.
Assigned to Oxygen Isotope Stage 5e. The Stourbridge locality includes varied fauna of mammalian bone fragments including hippopotamus, mammoth and woolly rhinoceros (Boulton, 1917), which may in part be reworked. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Stourbridge: Erosive base on bedrock (Sherwood Sandstone Group). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Ground surface; top not seen. |
| Thickness: |
Stourbridge: 3m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
River terrace deposits are found in isolated areas south of the Devensian ice-front, including the Ouse-Nene Catchment of Eastern England, the Trent Catchment of the East Midlands, the Avon Catchment of Warwickshire, the Thames Catchment and South Kent Catchment. These units have been formally defined. Isolated terrace remnants at Amblecote, Stourbridge have not been formally defined. |
| Parent Unit: |
River terrace deposits (RTD)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Interglacial fluvial deposits
(IGFD)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
Stourbridge Beds
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Section seen in site of former quarry, with 3m of sand and pebbly sand resting unconformably upon 4m of red sandstone. Boulton (1917). |
| Reference(s): |
| Boulton, W S. 1917. Mammalian remains in the Glacial Gravels at Stourbridge. Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society, Vol. 4, 107. |
| Maddy, D. 1997. Midlands drainage development. 7-18 in The Quaternary of the South Midlands & the Welsh Marches: Field Guide. Lewis, S, G. and Maddy, D. (editors). Quaternary Research Association. |
| Powell, J H, Glover, B W and Waters, C N, 1992. A Geological background for planning and development in the `Black Country'. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/92/33. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E167
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