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 |