The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Warren House Gill Loess Bed
| Computer Code: | WAHL | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Wolstonian Stage (QO) — Wolstonian Stage (QO) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Pale brown, massive, very fine-grained sand and silt, typically with vertical cracks, containing rounded concretions and sparse pebbles. Grading upwards into horizontally stratified, very fine-grained sand and silt, with thin beds of coarser sand and stringers of fine pebbles. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Sharp, conformable, draped contact with underlying dark grey, shelly, silty sandy gravelly diamicton of the Warren House Gill Till Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Planar, subhorizontal to gently undulating, gradational glacitectonic contact with overlying dark grey, stiff, sandy, silty stony clay diamicton of the Blackhall Till Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | To 4 m. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Coast of County Durham. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Warren House Gill Till Formation (WAHG) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Loess
(LOES)
Loess (LOES) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | Crops out at the foot of cliffs adjacent to the coastal dene of Warren House Gill, north of Horden, County Durham. Huddart, 2003. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Huddart, D. 2002. Warren House Gill. 51-56 in Huddart, D and Glasser, N F (editors), Quaternary of Northern England. Geological Conservation Review Series, No.25. [Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.] 745pp. | |||
| Bridgland, D R, Horton, B P, and Innes, J B. 1999. The Quaternary of northeast England. Field Guide. Quaternary Research Assocation, London. | |||
| Smith, D B and Francis, E A. 1967. Geology of the country between Durham and West Hartlepool. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet 27 (England and Wales). | |||
| Francis, E A. 1970. Quaternary. 134-152 in Johnson, G A L, Geology of Durham County. [Newcastle: Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.] 152pp. | |||
| Thomas, G S P. 1999. Northern England. 91-98 in Bowen, D Q (Editor), A revised correlation of Quaternary and Neogene deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report No.23. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| none recorded or not applicable | |||