| Computer Code: |
BACTO |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Cromerian Stage (QC)
— Cromerian Stage (QC) |
| Lithological Description: |
Clays and organic muds up to about 1.5 m thick, including the Arctic Freshwater Bed of Reid (1882). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Thickness: |
Up to about 1.5 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Parent Unit: |
Cromer Forest-bed Formation (CRF)
|
| 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: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| McMillan, A A, Hamblin, R J O, and Merritt, J W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03. 343pp. |
| Reid, C. 1882. The geology of the country around Cromer. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
