| Computer Code: |
ELVN |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Hoxnian Stage (QX)
— Hoxnian Stage (QX) |
| Lithological Description: |
Clayey silt with subsidiary organic mud. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Typically gradational lower boundary with underlying glacial deposits within buried channel. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Upper boundary not visible - either concealed or at the surface. |
| Thickness: |
Variable thickness depending upon post-depositional erosion, but up to 7m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Parent Unit: |
Not Entered (?)
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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: |
| Type Section |
Dis-used brick pit at Centre Parcs Elveden, Suffolk showing a complete section (6m thickness) through the deposit including basal contact. The section is now overgrown and the exposures are very poor (2012). |
| Reference(s): |
| Ashton, N, Lewis, S G, Parfitt, S A, Candy, I, Keen, D H, Kemp, R A, Penckman, K, Thomas, G N, and Whittaker, J. 2005. Excavations at a Lower Palaeolithic site at Elveden, Suffolk, UK. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 71, 1-61. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E174
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