| Computer Code: |
SBPT |
Preferred Map Code: |
SB |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Devensian Stage (QD)
— Devensian Stage (QD) |
| Lithological Description: |
Organic mud passing upwards into interbedded organic sand, gravel and compressed peat containing twigs of hazel and pine. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Not observed, but lying stratigraphically above yellowish brown, sandstone-rich diamicton. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Sharp, planar, unconformable contact, or intercalated glacitectonic junction with overlying yellowish brown, sandstone-rich diamicton correlated with the Gillcambon Till Formation. |
| Thickness: |
At least 4m |
| Geographical Limits: |
The Vale of Eden, Cumbria. |
| Parent Unit: |
Gillcambon Till Formation (GCBTI)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Scandal Beck Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SBPT]
(-2410)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
West bank of the Scandal Beck near Brunt Hill Farm at the southern edge of the Vale of Eden drumlin field. Mitchell, 2002. |
| Reference(s): |
| Letzer, J M. 1978. The glacial geomorphology of the region bounded by Shap Fells, Stainmore and the Howgill Fells in east Cumbria. Unpublished MPhil thesis, University of London. |
| Bowen, D Q. 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No. 23. |
| Carter, P A, Johnson, G A L, and Turner, J. 1978. An interglacial deposit at Scandal Beck, northwest England. New Phytologist, Vol. 81, 785-90. |
| Mitchell, W. 2002. Scandal Beck. 62-65 in Huddart, D and Glasser, N F (editors), Quaternary of Northern England. Geological Conservation Review Series, No.25. [Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.] 745pp. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
