| Computer Code: |
HISA |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Anglian Stage (QA)
— Anglian Stage (QA) |
| Lithological Description: |
Glaciofluvial sand with some gravel lenses, which in-fills a bedrock channel (probably a modified pre-glacial valley) east of Rugby. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At the type locality it is overlain by the Dunsmore Gravel Member (DMG) but southeastwards passes below the Oadby Till Member (ODT). |
| Thickness: |
Up to 50 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
East of Rugby. |
| Parent Unit: |
Wolston Glacigenic Formation (WOLS)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Hillmorton Pit [SP 542 737]. |
| Reference(s): |
| McMillan, A A, Hamblin, R J O, and Merritt, J W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03. 343pp. |
| Bowen, D Q. 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No. 23. |
| Old, R A, Sumbler, M G and Ambrose, K, 1987. Geology of the country around Warwick. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 184 (England and Wales). |
| Sumbler, M G. 1983. A new look at the type Wolstonian glacial deposits of Central England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 94, 23 - 31. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
