| Computer Code: |
BRY5 |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Holocene Epoch (QH)
— Holocene Epoch (QH) |
| Lithological Description: |
Peat, of freshwater and brackish origins. A widespread though locally impersistent layer at the top of the Breydon Formation (BRYD), mainly in the marshland fringe. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Underlain by the Upper Clay Member (BRY4). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Top of the Breydon Formation (BRYD). |
| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Geographical Limits: |
Confined to the valleys of the River Bure and River Yare near Great Yarmouth. |
| Parent Unit: |
Breydon Formation (BRYD)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| 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. |
| Arthurton, R S, Booth, S J, Morigi, A N, Abbott, M A W, and Wood, C J. 1994. Geology of the country around Great Yarmouth, Sheet Memoir 162, British Geological Survey. [London: HMSO.] 138pp. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E162
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