Computer Code: |
SYCC |
Preferred Map Code: |
SCCM |
Status Code: |
Full |
Age range: |
Stephanian Stage (CS)
— Permian Period (P) |
Lithological Description: |
Fine to coarse reddish brown conglomero-breccia with coarse- to very coarse-grained sandstone with dispersed clasts of Lower Devonian sandstone and penecontemporaneous rhyolite. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Lies unconformably on the rocks of the Staddon Formation. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Overlain by rhyolites of the Kingsand Rhyolitic Formation. |
Thickness: |
c.8m |
Geographical Limits: |
Sandway Cellar beach area. |
Parent Unit: |
Kingsand Rhyolitic Formation (KDR)
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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 |
Beach section, Sandway Cellar beach. |
Reference(s): |
Leveridge B E, Holder, M T, Goode, A J J, Scrivener R C, Jones N S and Merriman, R J. 2002. Geology of the Plymouth and south-east Cornwall area. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 348 (England and Wales). |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
E348
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