| Computer Code: |
SAV |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Quaternary Period (Q)
— Quaternary Period (Q) |
| Lithological Description: |
Usually a very soft to soft, highly plastic silty clay with shell fragments and containing lenses/layers of sand, gravelly sand, gravel and sandy mud up to 10cm thick. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Lower limit : unconformity upon sediments of the Ferder and Cape Shore Formations. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Upper limit : seabed. |
| Thickness: |
4 metres +. Up to 15 metres thick on seismic sections. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Not defined. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Entered (?)
|
| 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): |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
