| Computer Code: |
SCC |
Preferred Map Code: |
SCC |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
Black, locally laminated, pyritic mudstones with scattered thin bentonites and sandstones. Packets of thin- to thick-bedded sandstones with subordinate mudstones locally developed. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Base not seen. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Gradational but taken at incoming of sequence dominated by burrow mottled mudstones. |
| Thickness: |
Not defined. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Central Wales. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Applicable (-)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Carmel Group
(-516)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Numerous sections in and around Maesygelli Farmyard, Nantmel, Wales. |
| Reference(s): |
| Waters, C N, Smith, K, Hopson, P M, Wilson, D, Bridge, D M, Carney, J N, Cooper, A H, Crofts, R G, Ellison, R A, Mathers, S J, Moorlock, B S P, Scrivener, R C, McMillan, A A, Ambrose, K, Barclay, W J, and Barron, A J M. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Southern Britain. British Geological Survey, 1 poster. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E179
|
