| Computer Code: |
ERLI |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Late Paleocene (GPL)
— Late Paleocene (GPL) |
| Lithological Description: |
The rock suite includes rhyolite, cordierite-bearing dacite, obsidian and pitchstone (Ridd, 1983). |
| 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: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
Faroe-Shetland Basin, encountered in two wells (209/4-1A, 209/9-1). |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Applicable (-)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
Erlend Silicic Intrusives
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Knox, R W O'B, Holloway, S, Kirby, G A and Baily, H E. 1997. Stratigraphic nomenclature of the UK North West Margin. 2. Early Paleogene lithostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy. British Geological Survey, Nottingham. |
| Ridd, M F. 1983. Aspects of the Tertiary geology of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel. In: Bott, M H P, Saxov, S, Talwani, M, and Thiede, J (eds.) Structure and development of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge: new methods and concepts, 91-108. Plenum Press, New York. |
| Ritchie, J D, and Hitchen, K. 1996. Early Paleogene offshore igneous activity to the northwest of the UK and its relationship to the North Atlantic Igneous Province. In: Knox, R W O'b, Corfield, R M, and Dunay, R E (eds.) Correlation of the early Paleogene in northwest Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 101, 63-78. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
