The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Drygill Shales [Obsolete: use DRSH]

Computer Code: -1516 Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Index Level
Age range: Late Ordovician Epoch (OLA) — Late Ordovician Epoch (OLA)
Lithological Description: [Obsolete: use DRSH]
Definition of Lower Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Definition of Upper Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Thickness: none recorded or not applicable
Geographical Limits: none recorded or not applicable
Parent Unit: none recorded or not applicable
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
none recorded or not applicable
Reference(s):
Nicholson, H A, and Marr, J E. 1887. On the occurrence of a new fossiliferous horizon in the Ordovician Series of the Lake District. Geological Magazine, Decade 3, Vol. 4, 339–344. 
Elles, G L, and Wood, E M R. 1895. Supplementary notes on the Drygill Shales. Geological Magazine, Vol. 2, 246–249. 
Dean, W T, 1963. The Stile End Beds and Drygill Shales in the east and north of the English Lake District. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Vol.9, No.3, pp47-65. 
Eastwood, T, Hollingworth, S E, Rose, W C C, and Trotter, F M. 1968. Geology of the country around Cockermouth and Caldbeck. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, England and Wales, Sheet 23. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
none recorded or not applicable