| Computer Code: |
CFCOI |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Ordovician Period (O)
— Ordovician Period (O) |
| Lithological Description: |
Feldspar-phyric, micrographic microgranite. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Not defined. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Not defined. |
| Thickness: |
A near-vertical sheet, emplaced along the Roughton Gill Fault, at the western margin of the Carrock Fell Complex. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Carrock Fell, Cumbria. |
| Parent Unit: |
Carrock Fell Complex (CFCO)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Iron Crag Microgranite [In Carrock Fell Complex] [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CFCOI]
(-4532)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells. Millward (1999) |
| Reference(s): |
| Millward, D. 2002. Early Palaeozoic magmatism in the English Lake District. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 54, Part 2, 65-93. |
| Millward, D. Carrock Fell. 198-204 in Stephenson, D, Bevins, R E, Millward, D, Highton, A J, Parsons, I, Stone, P and Wadsworth, W J. 1999. Caledonian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Vol. 17. (Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E023
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