| Computer Code: |
BRME |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Quaternary Period (Q)
— Quaternary Period (Q) |
| Lithological Description: |
Fluvial sands and gravels form a bench about 2-4 m above the present floodplain. Three units have been recognised:
Uppermost - Cross-bedded sand with gravel and clay lenses;
Middle - coarse, poorly sorted, bedded gravel and sand;
Lowermost - sorted, cross-bedded gravel and sand.
The terrace has yielded a rich fauna and flora. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformable on sands of Happisburgh Formation (formerly called Corton Formation). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At surface or may be overlain by Blown Sand in the area around Outney Common and elsewhere locally overlain by Alluvium. |
| Thickness: |
264 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Restricted to the valley of the River Waveney, along the Norfolk-Suffolk border. Depicted as Second Terrace Deposits on BGS maps. |
| Parent Unit: |
Waveney Valley Formation (WAVV)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
Second Terrace Of The Waveney (Moorlock Et Al,2000)
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Broome Heath Pit about 2 km north of Bungay. Coxon (in Allen, 1984). |
| Reference(s): |
| Sparks, B W and West, R G. 1968. Interglacial deposits at Wortwell, Norfolk. Geological Magazine, Vol.105, 471-481. |
| Moorlock, B S, Hamblin, R J O, Morigi, A N, Booth, S J and Jeffery, D H. 2000a. The geology of the country around Lowestoft and Saxmundham. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, sheets 176 and 191 (England and Wales). |
| Allen, P. 1984. Field guide to the Gipping and Waveney valleys, Suffolk, May, 1982. Cambridge, Quaternary Research Association. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E176
E191
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