| Computer Code: |
ENLE |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full, pending ratification |
| Age range: |
Cisuralian Epoch (PLC)
— Cisuralian Epoch (PLC) |
| Lithological Description: |
Breccia containing greywacke, sandstone and mudstone set in a sandy matrix. Red-brown buff and white sandstone and red-brown silstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn at base of breccia of the Coolbeg Breccia Formation where it rests unconformably on turbidites of the Tullykevin Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Drawn at conformable upward passage from sandstone of the Kennel Sandstone Formation to breccia of the Newforte Breccia Formation. |
| Thickness: |
About 320 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
County Down, Northern Ireland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Applicable (-)
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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): |
| Foster, S S D, 1969. Newtownards Borough Council Enler Gravels Abstraction Scheme: Report of the investigation into groundwater conditions at the Unicarval site. Institute of Geological Sciences, Hydrogeology Series, Technical Report WD/ST/69/17. |
| Smith, R A and others, 1991. Geology of the country around Newtownards. Geological Survey of Northern Ireland. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
