The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Bole Hill Sandstone
| Computer Code: | BOHIL | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Langsettian Substage (CA) — Langsettian Substage (CA) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Sandstone, greenish grey, buff-weathered, argillaceous, fine- and very fine-grained; part poorly bedded, part current ripple-laminated and cross-bedded; mean cross-bed palaeocurrent flow direction toward the east (Chisholm 1990, fig.8). | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | The base of the Bole Hill Sandstone overlies a regionally widespread mudstone containing the non-marine 'Daubhill fauna'. Locally the base is erosive, cutting through this mudstone into the underlying sandstones of the Wingfield Flags (Chisholm 1990, fig.9). | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | The top of the Bole Hill Sandstone is overlain by the Kilburn Coal (Chisholm 1990, fig.9). | ||
| Thickness: | To 40m (Chisholm 1990, fig.9) | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Sandstone is mappable at outcrop from [SK 368 663] to [SK 382 563]. Main part of sandstone is an east-west oriented palaeochannel with outcrop extending from [SK 368 663] at the northern margin of the channel to [SK 379 590] at the southern margin of the channel. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation (PLCM) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Wingfield Flags
(WGF)
Wingfield Flags (WGF) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | Bole Hill Channel Wingfield Flags |
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| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | Old quarries 100 m ENE of Ogston Hall. 17m discontinuous section in cross-bedded and ripple laminated sandstone, top and base not proved. | ||
| Reference Section | Bole Hill Quarry. 8m section in cross-bedded and ripple laminated sandstone, with minor siltstone; top and base not proved. Smith et al, 1967, p.117. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Chisholm, J I. 1990. The Upper Band-Better Bed sequence (Lower Coal Measures, Westphalian A) in the central and south Pennine area of England. Geological Magazine, Vol. 127, 55-74. | |||
| Chisholm, J I, and Hallsworth, C R. 2005. Provenance of Upper Carboniferous sandstones in east Derbyshire: role of the Wales-Brabant High. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 55, 209-233. | |||
| Smith, E G, Rhys, G H and Eden, R A. 1967. Geology of the country around Chesterfield, Matlock, and Mansfield. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. England and Wales Sheet 112. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E112 | |||