| Computer Code: |
COBL |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Thanetian Age (GT)
— Ypresian Age (GY) |
| Lithological Description: |
The Cobham Lignite Bed comprises a 2 m thick bed of laminated or blocky, black or dark brown lignite with thin pale clays. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Thickness: |
2 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Appears to be localised within the Shorne Outlier in north-west Kent. |
| Parent Unit: |
Shorne Member (SHOM)
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| 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: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Aldiss, D T. 2014. The stratigraphical framework for the Palaeogene successions of the London Basin, UK. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/14/008. 95 pp. |
| Page, D P, and Skipper, J A E. 2000. Lithological characteristics of the Lambeth Group. Ground Engineering, Vol. 33, 38-43. |
| Collinson, M E, Hooker, J J, and Gröcke, D R. 2003. Cobham Lignite Bed and penecontemporaneous macrofloras of southern England: a record of vegetation and fire across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. 339-349 in Causes and consequences of globally warm climates on the Early Paleogene. Wing, S L, Gingerich, P D, Schmitz, B, and Thomas, E (editors). Geological Society of America Special Papers 369. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
