| Computer Code: |
SUFP |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Ypresian Age (GY)
— Ypresian Age (GY) |
| Lithological Description: |
The Suffolk Pebble Bed comprises well-rounded flint gravel with faunal debris. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Separated from the overlying beds of the Orwell Member at a sharply defined contact. |
| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Parent Unit: |
Orwell Member (ORW)
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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: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Boswell, P G H. 1927. The geology of the country around Ipswich. Memoir of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, Sheet 207 (England and Wales). |
| Curry, D. 1958. Part 3a XII Palaeogene. Lexique Stratigraphique International. Whittard, W F, and Simpson, S (editors). Vol. 1 Europe (Paris: Centre Nationale de la Research Scientifique.) |
| Boswell, P G H. 1915. The stratigraphy and petrology of the Lower Eocene deposits of the north-eastern part of the London Basin. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 71, 536-591. |
| Jolley, D.W., 1996. The earliest Eocene sediments of eastern England: an ultra-high resolution palynological correlation, In: Knox, R.W.O., Corfield, R.M., Dunay, R.E. (Eds.), Correlation of the Early Palaeogene in Northwest Europe. Geological Society of London Special Publication 101, pp. 219-254. |
| Aldiss, D T. 2014. The stratigraphical framework for the Palaeogene successions of the London Basin, UK. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/14/008. 95 pp. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
