| Computer Code: |
BOU |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Bathonian Age (JN)
— Bathonian Age (JN) |
| Lithological Description: |
A thin shell-fragmental muddy limestone with abundant Goniorhynchia boueti. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Rests non-sequentially on olive grey bioturbated mudstone of Frome Clay Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Thickness: |
0.35 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Dorset. |
| Parent Unit: |
Forest Marble Formation (FMB)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Watton Cliff [SY 451 908], West Bay, Dorset permanently but variably exposes over 25 m of beds, including 0.35 m-thick Boueti Bed at base. |
| Reference(s): |
| Barron, A J M, Lott, G K, and Riding, J B. 2012. Stratigraphical framework for the Middle Jurassic strata of Great Britain and the adjoining continental shelf. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/11/06. |
| Buckman, S S. 1922. Jurassic Chronology: II - Preliminary studies. Certain Jurassic strata near Eypesmouth (Dorset): the Junction-Bed of Watton Cliff and associated rocks. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 78, 378-436. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E327
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