The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Egginton Common Sand and Gravel Member
| Computer Code: | EGSG | Preferred Map Code: | symb |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Mid Pleistocene (QPM) — Mid Pleistocene (QPM) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Predominantly cold-phase sands and gravels that underlie the Egginton Common Terrace. Intensely cryoturbated, decalcified poorly sorted sand and gravel, dominated by rounded pebbles of "Bunter" quartz/quartzite (up to c.90%) with subordinate subangular flint (up to c.15%), Carboniferous chert, sandstone, etc., Fairly well developed and extensive terrace surface c.12-13m above the Trent/Dove floodplain in Type Area. Upper part locally includes a rubified paleosol (Hykeham Soil; Ipswichian). Correlated with the Borrowash Sand and Gravel Member (Derwent Valley Formation) and Burstall Sand and Gravel Member (Soar Valley Formation) and Balderton Sand and Gravel Member (Trent Valley Formation). River terrace deposits. Middle Pleistocene (MI Stage 6). | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Unconformable, commonly channelled base, resting on pre-Quaternary bedrock. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Ground surface. | ||
| Thickness: | 0 to c. 4.5 m. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Occurs as outliers on north bank of Trent in type area (Sheet 141); thought to be present upstream, particularly on the north bank of the Dove downstream of Uttoxeter (Sheet 140) and probably elsewhere, (e.g. on the south bank of the Trent near Alrewas, Sheet 154) but extent uncertain pending resurvey. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Trent Valley Formation (TRVA) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Lower Hilton Terrace [Obsolete Name and Code: Use BOSG, EGSG]
(-4486)
Egginton Common Member (-886) Egginton Common Sand and Gravel [Obsolete Name and Code: Use EGSG] (-4019) Hilton Gravels [Obsolete Name and Code: Use EGSG] (-4020) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Area | Hilton-Etwall-Willington. Brandon, 1997; Brandon and Cooper, 1997. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Brandon, A. 1997. Geology of the Stretton and Repton areas: 1:10 000 Sheets SK22NE and SK32NW. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/97/02. | |||
| Brandon, A, and Cooper, A H. 1997. Geology of the Etwall area: 1:10 000 Sheet SK23SE. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/97/03. | |||
| Barrow, G, Gibson, W, Cantrill, T C, Dixon, E E L, and Cunningham, C H. 1919. The geology of the country around Lichfield. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. | |||
| Clayton, K M. 1953. The glacial chronology of part of the middle Trent basin. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol.64. 198-207. | |||
| Rice, R J. 1968. The Quaternary Era, 332-355 in: Sylvester-Bradley, P C and Ford, T D (editors). The Geology of the East Midlands. (Leicester University Press). | |||
| Carney, J N, Ambrose, K and Brandon, A. 2001. Geology of the country between Burton, Loughborough and Derby. Description of 1:50k Sheet 141 (England and Wales). | |||
| Posnansky, M. 1960. The Pleistocene succession in the middle Trent basin. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol.17, 285-311. | |||
| Pocock, T I. 1929, The Trent valley in the glacial period. Zeitschrift fur Gletscherkunde, Vol.17. 302-318. | |||
| Stevenson, I P and Gaunt, G D, 1971. Geology of the country around Chapel-en-le-Frith. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, England and Wales, Sheet 99. | |||
| Carney, J N, Ambrose, K and Brandon, A. 2002. Geology of the Loughborough district. Sheet explanation of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 141 (England and Wales). | |||
| Bowen, D Q. 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No. 23. | |||
| Stoker, M S, McMillan, A A and Waters, C N. Quaternary Stratigraphical Chart: Southern Britain. British Geological Survey, 1 poster. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E141 E140 E154 | |||