The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Winterton Shoal Formation

Computer Code: WN Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Pending Upgrade
Age range: Marine Isotope Stage 62 (QMIS062) — Marine Isotope Stage 22 (QMIS022)
Lithological Description: Presumed fine- or medium-grained sands with minor clay laminations (1 x 0.66 metres core sample only in British Sector). Mainly structureless in seismic profiles, but in some sections gently-dipping reflectors prograde westwards onto erosional base. Unconformably overlain by unit with chaotic reflector configuration, overlies eastward-prograding (Smith's Knoll Formation) or westward-prograding beds (Ijmuiden Ground Formation).
Definition of Lower Boundary: Widespread unconformities. Overlies early Pleistocene Prodelta Beds, overlain by Yarmouth Roads Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Widespread unconformities. Overlies early Pleistocene Prodelta Beds, overlain by Yarmouth Roads Formation.
Thickness: 0 - 130 metres.
Geographical Limits: Not defined.
Parent Unit: Southern North Sea Deltaic Group (SNSG)
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
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.) 
Gatliff, R W, Richards, P C, Smith, K, Graham, C C, McCormac, M, Smith, N J P, Long, D, Cameron, T D J, Evans, D, Stevenson, A G, Bulat, J, and Ritchie, J D. 1994. United Kingdom offshore regional report: the geology of the central 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