| Computer Code: |
HMSG |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Mid Pleistocene (QPM)
— Holocene Epoch (QH) |
| Lithological Description: |
Northerly-derived fluvial sand and gravel with clasts of pre-Cambrian, Lower Palaeozoic, Devonian, Carboniferous and Triassic rocks that form terrace remnants in the Lugg valley. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Locally overlain or reworked by glacial deposits of the Risbury Glacigenic Formation (RISB). |
| Thickness: |
2-8 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Herefordshire and Worcestershire. |
| Parent Unit: |
Severn and Avon Catchments Subgroup (SACA)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| 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. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
