The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Cannel Coal (In Pennine Lower Coal Measures South Lancashire)

Computer Code: CCSL Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Full
Age range: Langsettian Substage (CA) — Langsettian Substage (CA)
Lithological Description: Coal
Definition of Lower Boundary: Base of first coal above mudstones of the Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation overlying the Upper Mountain Coal..
Definition of Upper Boundary: Base of mudstone-dominated unit of the Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation resting on the Cannel Coal.
Thickness: 0.9m maximum.
Geographical Limits: Burnley [SD 83 32] (South Lancashire).
Parent Unit: Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation (PLCM)
Previous Name(s): Cannel Mine [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CCSL] (-2674)
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Section  Full thickness previously exposed at the now restored Cowside Opencast Site, Burnley. Hough, 2001. 
Reference(s):
Wright, W B, Sherlock, R L, Wray, D A, Lloyd, W and Tonks, L H, 1927. The Geology of the Rossendale Anticline. Memoir of the Geological Survey, England. England and Wales Sheet 76. 
Jones, R C B, Tonks, L H and Wright, W B, 1938. Wigan District. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. England and Wales Sheet 84. 
Hough, E, 2001. Geology of the Cliviger district. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/00/29. 
Earp, J R, Magraw, D, Poole, E G, Land, D H and Whiteman, A J, 1961. Geology of the country around Clitheroe and Nelson. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet.68, England and Wales, pp.346. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
E076 E068 E084