| Computer Code: |
SIFA |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
Unbedded, poorly sorted sheets of pyroclastic breccia, lithic-rich lapilli-tuff; locally pumice-rich. Generally polymict, but with dominant dacite/andesite clasts in places. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
At downward change from coarse polymict deposits to welded vitric tuff and lapilli-tuff of the Town End Farm Member. In reference section (RCM3) basal beds include 13m of bedded tuff and lapilli-tuff; and poorly sorted lithic-rich lapilli-tuff. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At sharp upward change in lithology from polymict deposits to welded vitric tuffs of Longlands Farm Member. |
| Thickness: |
68m in type section; 43m in RCF3. Thicknesses are uncorrected for structural dip or borehole deviation from vertical. Thickness in RCM 3 (reference section) not calculated. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Sellafield boreholes 5 (NY00SE/30), 8A (NY00SE/38), RCF1 (NY00SE/35), RCF2 (NY00SE/36), RCF3 (NY00SE/37) and RCM3 (NY00SE/39). |
| Parent Unit: |
Fleming Hall Tuff Formation (FLH)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Sides Farm Member [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SIFA]
(-2421)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Sellafield Borehole No.5, BGS Registered No. NY00SE/30, 669.18 - 736.95m below Rotary Table Elevation, 583.55 - 651.32m below OD. |
| Reference Section |
Sellafield Borehole RCM3, BGS Registered No. NY00SE/39. 811.08 - 887.00m below Rotary Table Elevation. This borehole is a deviated vertical one; true depths are not yet known. |
| Reference(s): |
| Beddoe-Stephens, B, and Millward, D. 2000. Very densely welded, rheomorphic ignimbrites of homogeneous intermediate calc-alkaline composition from the English Lake District. Geological Magazine, Vol. 137, 155-173. |
| 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. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
