| Computer Code: |
CIN |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Berriasian Age (KR)
— Berriasian Age (KR) |
| Lithological Description: |
Oyster rich, very shelly micrite. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
The very shelly micrite of the Cinder Bed conformably overlies the thick-bedded, chert-rich micrites of the Worbarrow Tout Member (WOT) of the Lulworth Formation (LULW). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Thickness: |
Almost 2 metres thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Dorset. |
| Parent Unit: |
Stair Hole Member (SHO)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Reference Section - east cliff at Stair Hole [SY 8229 7983]. |
| Reference(s): |
| Barton, C M, Woods, M A, Bristow, C R, Newell, A J, Westhead, R K, Evans, D J, Kirby, G A, and Warrington, G. 2011. Geology of south Dorset and south-east Devon and its World Heritage Coast. Special Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 328, 341/342, 342/343 and parts of 326/340, 327, 329 and 339. |
| Westhead, R K and Mather, A E. 1996. An updated lithostratigraphy of the Purbeck Limestone Group in the Dorset area. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol.107, 117-128. |
| Bristow, C R et al. 1999. Geology of the Stokeford-East Lulworth area, Dorset. Technical Report WA/99/25. British Geological Survey. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
