| Computer Code: |
SCMBS |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Devensian Stage (QD)
— Devensian Stage (QD) |
| Lithological Description: |
At Seacombe, a shell-rich sand with fine gravel, this deposit contains boulders and cobbles of till; developed as a foraminifera-rich till at Crosby and Blackpool. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Details unknown. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Overlain unconformably by till at the type locality at Seacombe. |
| Thickness: |
0 to 45m |
| Geographical Limits: |
North Wirral and the Liverpool Bay coast. |
| Parent Unit: |
British Coastal Deposits Group (COAS)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Seacombe Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SCMBS]
(-1167)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Seacombe. Reade, 1894. |
| Reference(s): |
| Thomas, G S P. 1999. Northern England. 91-98 in Bowen, D Q (Editor), A revised correlation of Quaternary and Neogene deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report No.23. |
| Reade, T M. 1894. An ancient glacial shore. Geological Magazine, Vol.1(2). 76-77. |
| Reade, T M. 1895. Foraminiferal boulder clay at Great Crosby and at Blackpool. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society, Vol.7, 387-390. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
