| Computer Code: |
STSA |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Pleistocene Epoch (QP)
— Pleistocene Epoch (QP) |
| Lithological Description: |
Clean pink to brown sand beneath the Paxford Gravel Member (PA) at Stretton and neighbouring Paxford/Ditchford Hill. It has yielded a small fauna (Shotton, 1973; Lister, 1989), including the Straight-tusked Elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, as in the Thurmaston Gravel Member of Warwickshire, its presumed equivalent. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
Stretton and neighbouring Paxford/Ditchford Hill. |
| Parent Unit: |
Baginton Sand and Gravel Formation (BGSG)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Stretton-on-Fosse Pit [SP 218 382] (Sumbler, 2001). |
| Reference(s): |
| McMillan, A A, Hamblin, R J O, and Merritt, J W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03. 343pp. |
| Sumbler, M G. 2001. The Moreton Drift, a further clue to glacial chronology in central England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol.112, 13-27. |
| Lister, A M. 1989. Mammalian faunas and the Wolstonian debate. 5-12 in The Pleistocene of the West Midlands: Field Guide. Keen, D H (editor). (Cambridge: Quaternary Research Association.) |
| Shotton, F W. 1973. A mammalian fauna from the Stretton Sand at Stretton-on-Fosse, south Warwickshire. Geological Magazine, Vol. 109, 473-476. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
