| Computer Code: |
2TAW3 |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Late Pleistocene (QPL)
— Late Pleistocene (QPL) |
| Lithological Description: |
Stony, sandy silty clay. Trace tin ore (cassiterite). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformable on bedrock shales and sandstones of Lower Carboniferous age. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Surface. |
| Thickness: |
Unknown. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Valley of the River Taw, near Barnstaple, Devonshire. |
| Parent Unit: |
Taw Valley Formation (TAW)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Taw Valley south of Barnstaple. Freshney et al. (1979). |
| Reference(s): |
| Freshney, E C, Beer, K E, and Wright, J E. 1979. Geology of the country around Chumleigh. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet 309 (England and Wales). |
| Edmonds, E A, Whittaker, A, and Williams, B J. 1985. Geology of the country around Ilfracombe and Barnstaple. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 277 and 293 (England and Wales). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
