| Computer Code: |
LPG |
Preferred Map Code: |
LPG |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Kinderscoutian Substage (CK)
— Kinderscoutian Substage (CK) |
| Lithological Description: |
Sandstone, medium- to very coarse-grained, locally pebbly, locally micaceous with mudstone partings. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Sharp gradation with underlying un-named mudstone sequence recorded in the Stockeld Borehole SE34NE/16, [SE 3803 4945]. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Sharp contact with overlying mudstones which include the Eccup Marine Band. Recorded in Stockeld Borehole SE34NE/16. |
| Thickness: |
20-45 m |
| Geographical Limits: |
North of Leeds 70 Sheet and west of Harrogate 62 Sheet onto Pateley Bridge 61 Sheet. |
| Parent Unit: |
Millstone Grit Group [See Also MIGR] (MG)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Lower Plompton Grit Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use LPG]
(-2301)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
Lower Plumpton Grit
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Disused Spofforth railway cutting; 30 m of strata. Cooper and Burgess, 1993. |
| Type Section |
Borehole: Stockeld Borehole SE34NE/16, 38.25-69.34 m. Cooper and Burgess, 1993. |
| Reference(s): |
| Fox-Strangways, 1908. The geology of the country north and east of Harrogate (2nd edition). Memoir of the Geological Survey (England & Wales). London HMSO. |
| Cooper, A H and Burgess, I C. 1993. Geology of the country around Harrogate. Memoir for 1:50000 geological sheet 62 (England and Wales). London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey. |
| Hudson, R G S, 1938. The geology of the country around Harrogate. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol.49, 306-330. |
| Burgess, I C, and Cooper, A H. 1980. The Farnham (IGS) borehole near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 80/1, 12-17. |
| 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. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E062
E070
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