| Computer Code: |
CDMD |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
Interbedded dark grey to black turbiditic and laminated hemipagic mudstones. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Conformable with the sandstones of the main part of the Dinas Island Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Overlain by burrow-mottled mudstones of the Nantmel Formation, the boundary possibly represents a non-sequence. |
| Thickness: |
To 60m |
| Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Parent Unit: |
Dinas Island Formation (DIIS)
|
| 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): |
| Davies, J R, Waters, R A, Wilby P R, Williams, M and Wilson, D. 2003. Geology of the Cardigan and Dinas Island district - a brief explanation of the geological map. Sheet explanation of the British Geological Survey. 1: 50 000 Sheet 193. [Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey.] 26pp. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E193
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