Computer Code: |
TRL |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
Status Code: |
Index Level |
Age range: |
Brigantian Substage (CX)
— Brigantian Substage (CX) |
Lithological Description: |
[Obsolete: use CFML] Thick units of thinly bedded dark argillaceous limestone with shale bands, interbedded with units of pale massive skeletal limestone. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Lower contact taken at the first palaeosol below the lowest unit of argillaceous limestone and shale marking the boundary with the underlying Penmon Limestone. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Upper contact not exposed. |
Thickness: |
92.5 metres. |
Geographical Limits: |
Not defined. |
Parent Unit: |
none recorded or not applicable
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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 |
Cliff sections between Moelfre and Pen-y-Coed centred on Traeth Bychan, Sheet 94. |
Reference(s): |
Davies, J R. 1983. The stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology of the Lower Carboniferous of Anglesey. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Keele. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
E094
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