| Computer Code: |
SKL |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Cautleyan Stage (OU)
— Rawtheyan Stage (OW) |
| Lithological Description: |
Thick to thin-bedded and nodular, dark blue-grey limestone, fissile calcareous siltstones and mudstones, locally richly fossiliferous. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Base is diachronous, unconformably overlying the Mydrim Shales Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Disconformably overlain by limestones of the Slade and Redhill Formation. |
| Thickness: |
To 57m |
| Geographical Limits: |
No data. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Available (!)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Shoalshook Limestone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SKL]
(-4330)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Price, D, 1973. The age and stratigraphy of the Sholeshook Limestone of South Wales. Geological Journal, Vol.8, 225-246 |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E230
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