| Computer Code: |
MLTS |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Early Pleistocene (QPE)
— Early Pleistocene (QPE) |
| Lithological Description: |
Comprises up to 13 m of pebbly sands with a wholly locally derived gravel fraction. |
| 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: |
Up to 13 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Occurs in a number of widely separated outcrops on the interfluves of the upper reaches of the Welland and Nene rivers. |
| Parent Unit: |
Dunwich Group (DUNW)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Milton Sand (Obsolete name: use MLTS)
(MLTSD)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Bowen, D Q. 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No. 23. |
| Barron, A J M, Morigi, A N, and Reeves, H J. 2006. Geology of the Wellingborough district. Sheet Explanation of the British Geological Survey. Sheet 186 (England and Wales). |
| 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. |
| Belshaw, R K, Hackney, G D, and Smith, K A. 2005. The evolution of the drainage pattern of the English Midlands from the Late Tertiary to the Early Pleistocene: the significance of the Milton Formation. Quaternary Newsletter, No. 105, 16–31. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
