| Computer Code: |
HANS |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Asturian Substage (CAS)
— Asturian Substage (CAS) |
| Lithological Description: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| 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: |
North Staffordshire. |
| Parent Unit: |
Halesowen Formation (HA)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Hanchurch Sandstone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use HANS]
(-1584)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Rees, J G and Wilson, A A. 1998. Geology of the country around Stoke-on-Trent. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 123 (England and Wales). |
| Powell, J H, Chisholm, JI, Bridge, D M, Rees, J G, Glover, B W and Besly, B M. 2000. Stratigraphical framework for Westphalian to Early Permian red-bed successions of the Pennine Basin. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/99/10. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E123
|
