The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Hind Sandstone
| Computer Code: | HIS | Preferred Map Code: | HiS |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Pendleian Substage (CE) — Pendleian Substage (CE) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Sandstone, medium- to coarse-grained in thick to massive sharp-based beds with shaly partings - turbidite facies. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Plane above the Tumulites pseudobilinguis Marine Band in Bowland Shale Formation where sandstone of the Hind Sandstone rests sharply upon dark grey mudstone of the Bowland Shale Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Plane below the Cravenoceras malhamense Marine Band where sequence changes gradationally from being predominantly sandstone to being predominantly mudstone of the Bowland Shale Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | 7m at Hind Clough (probable maximum thickness), 1.7 at Blue Scar, 1.27m at the Trough of Bowland. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Not identified outside Bowland Fells area, except at Dinkley where exposed in River Ribble section. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Bowland Shale Formation (BSG) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Newton Fells Grit
(NFG)
Hind Sandstone Member [Obsolete Name and Code: Use HIS] (-4094) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | Blue Scar, Middle Knoll, Whitendale. Crag forming landslip scar 570m south-west of Whitendale, Bowland. | ||
| Type Section | Hind Clough, Bowland. Hind Clough - stream gully 880m south of Brennand Farm, Bowland. | ||
| Reference Section | Trough of Bowland. Immediately east of road in Trough of Bowland, 1.4km north-north-west of Sykes Farm. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Brandon, A, Aitkenhead, N, Crofts, R G, Ellison, R A, Evans, D J, and Riley, N J. 1998. Geology of the country around Lancaster. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 59 (England and Wales). | |||
| Moseley, F, 1962. The structure of the south-western part of the Sykes Anticline, Bowland, West Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol.33, p.287-314. | |||
| Waters, C N, Waters, R A, Barclay, W J, and Davies, J R. 2009. Lithostratigraphical framework for Carboniferous successions of Southern Great Britain (Onshore). British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/09/01. 184pp. | |||
| Aitkenhead, N, Bridge, D M, Riley, N J, and Kimbell, S F. 1992. Geology of the country around Garstang. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 67 (England and Wales) | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E067 E059 | |||