Computer Code: |
COBL |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
Status Code: |
Full |
Age range: |
Thanetian Age (GT)
— Ypresian Age (GY) |
Lithological Description: |
The Cobham Lignite Bed comprises a 2 m thick bed of laminated or blocky, black or dark brown lignite with thin pale clays. |
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: |
2 m thick. |
Geographical Limits: |
Appears to be localised within the Shorne Outlier in north-west Kent. |
Parent Unit: |
Shorne Member (SHOM)
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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: |
none recorded or not applicable |
Reference(s): |
Aldiss, D T. 2014. The stratigraphical framework for the Palaeogene successions of the London Basin, UK. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/14/008. 95 pp. |
Page, D P, and Skipper, J A E. 2000. Lithological characteristics of the Lambeth Group. Ground Engineering, Vol. 33, 38-43. |
Collinson, M.E., Hooker, J.J., Gröcke, D.R., 2003. Cobham Lignite Bed and penecontemporaneous macrofloras of southern England: a record of vegetation and fire across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, In: Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., Thomas, E. (Eds.), Causes and consequences of globally warm climates on the Early Paleogene. Geological Society of America Special Papers 369, pp. 339-349. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
none recorded or not applicable |