| Computer Code: |
WK |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Marine Isotope Stage 103 (QMIS103)
— Marine Isotope Stage 63 (QMIS063) |
| Lithological Description: |
Marine clays with thin sandy laminae passing gradationally upwards to sand with thin clay laminae (shallowing upwards), characterised by strong, continuous, sub-parallel reflectors in seismic profiles. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformably overlies gently-folded and faulted Palaeogene or older sediments, unconformably overlies Red Crag Formation in southwest quadrant of Flemish Bight. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Unconformably overlain by Lower, Middle and Upper Pleistocene formations, and by Holocene sediments in the southwest. |
| Thickness: |
20 - 75 metres. (45 metres in 81/50A). |
| Geographical Limits: |
Not defined. |
| Parent Unit: |
Southern North Sea Deltaic Group (SNSG)
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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): |
| Stoker, M S, Balson, P S, Long, D, and Tappin, D R. 2011. An overview of the lithostratigraphical framework for the Quaternary deposits on the United Kingdom continental shelf. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/11/03. 48pp. |
| Cameron, T D J, Laban, C, and Schuttenhelm, R T E. 1984. Solid Geology, Quaternary Geology and Sea-Bed Sediments of the United Kingdom and Continental Shelf. British Geological Survey, 1:250 000 series, 52N-02E Quaternary: Flemish Bight, Quaternary Geology, MR/85/38. (Southampton: Ordnance Survey for the British Geological Survey.) |
| Cameron, T D J, Crosby, A, Balson, P S, Jeffery, D H, Lott, G K, Bulat, J, and Harrison, D J. 1992. United Kingdom offshore regional report: the geology of the southern North Sea. (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey.) |
| Cameron, T D J, and Holmes, R. 1999. The Continental Shelf. 125-139 in A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Bowen, D Q (editor). Special Report of the Geological Society of London, No. 23. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
