The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Bucklebury Common Gravel Member

Computer Code: BYGR Preferred Map Code: symb
Status Code: Full
Age range: Early Pleistocene (QPE) — Mid Pleistocene (QPM)
Lithological Description: Gravel, variably clayey and sandy. Forms the eighth terrace of the pre-diversionary ancestral River Thames.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Erosional base on Tertiary-Cretaceous bedrock.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Terrace surface around Bucklebury.
Thickness: 1-5 m at Furze Hill [SU 426 687], Bucklebury (White, 1902; Collins, 1994).
Geographical Limits: Valley of the Kennet in the Newbury district (Aldiss et al., 2006).
Parent Unit: Sudbury Formation (SBRY)
Previous Name(s): Plateau Gravel (PLG)
Bucklebury Gravel [Obsolete Name and Code: Use BYGR] (-2655)
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Area  Bucklebury Common (Mathers and Smith, 2000). 
Reference(s):
Mathers, S J and Smith, N J P. 2000. Geology of the Reading district - a brief explanation of the geological map. Sheet Explanation of the British Geological Survey. 1:50 000 Sheet 268 Reading (England and Wales). 
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. 
Bowen, D Q. 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No. 23. 
Aldiss, D T, Newell, A J, Smith, N J P, and Woods, M A. 2006. Geology of the Newbury district. Sheet Explanation of the British Geological Survey. Sheet 267 (England and Wales). 
White, H J O. 1902. On a peculiarity in the course of certain streams in the London and Hampshire basins. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 17, 107-120. 
Collins, P E F. 1994. Floodplain environmental change since the Last Glacial maximum in the Lower Kennet valley. PhD Thesis, University of Reading. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
E268