| Computer Code: |
WLST |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Kimmeridgian Age (JD)
— Kimmeridgian Age (JD) |
| Lithological Description: |
Tabular cementstone bed. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Sharp contact with mudstone of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (KC). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Sharp contact with mudstone of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (KC). |
| Thickness: |
Approx. 0.4 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Dorset. |
| Parent Unit: |
Kimmeridge Clay Formation (KC)
|
| 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: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Cox, B M, and Gallois, R W. 1981. The stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay of the Dorset type area and it's correlation with some other Kimmeridgian sequences. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 80/4. |
| Arkell, W J. 1947. Geology of the country around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Sheets 341, 342, 343 and small portions of sheets 327, 328 and 329 (England and Wales). |
| Cox, B M, and Wright, J K. 2001. British Upper Jurassic stratigraphy (Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian). Geological Conservation Review Series, No. 21. (Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
