| Computer Code: |
CCSL |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Langsettian Substage (CA)
— Langsettian Substage (CA) |
| Lithological Description: |
Coal |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Base of first coal above mudstones of the Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation overlying the Upper Mountain Coal.. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Base of mudstone-dominated unit of the Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation resting on the Cannel Coal. |
| Thickness: |
0.9m maximum. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Burnley [SD 83 32] (South Lancashire). |
| Parent Unit: |
Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation (PLCM)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Cannel Mine [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CCSL]
(-2674)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Full thickness previously exposed at the now restored Cowside Opencast Site, Burnley. Hough, 2001. |
| Reference(s): |
| Wright, W B, Sherlock, R L, Wray, D A, Lloyd, W and Tonks, L H, 1927. The Geology of the Rossendale Anticline. Memoir of the Geological Survey, England. England and Wales Sheet 76. |
| Jones, R C B, Tonks, L H and Wright, W B, 1938. Wigan District. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. England and Wales Sheet 84. |
| Hough, E, 2001. Geology of the Cliviger district. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/00/29. |
| Earp, J R, Magraw, D, Poole, E G, Land, D H, and Whiteman, A J. 1961. Geology of the country around Clitheroe and Nelson. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet.68, England and Wales, p. 346. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E076
E068
E084
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