| Computer Code: |
CLMB |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Asbian Substage (CR)
— Asbian Substage (CR) |
| Lithological Description: |
Calcareous sandstone with many fossils. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Thickness: |
c. 4.5 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Type locality is at Cove Harbour, near Cockburnspath, Berwickshire. |
| Parent Unit: |
Strathclyde Group (SYG)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
Cove Lower Limestone
|
| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Clough, C T, Barrow, G, Crampton, C B, Maufe, H B, Anderson, E M, and Bailey, E B. 1910. The geology of East Lothian (2nd edition). Memoir of the Geological Survey, Scotland, Sheets 33 and parts of 34 and 41. |
| Wilson, H H. 1952. The Cove marine bands in East Lothian and their realtion to the ironstone, shale and limestone of Redesdale, Northumberland. Geological Magazine, Vol.89. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
