The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Flags Formation

Computer Code: FLG Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Pending Upgrade
Age range: Marine Isotope Stage 2 (QMIS002) — Marine Isotope Stage 1 (QMIS001)
Lithological Description: Very soft, soft to firm sandy/silty clays or muddy sands often laminated, usually olive to dark grey and containing sulphides. The laminae show coarsening upwards sequences. Pockmarks identified on seismic records in some areas.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Upper limit : seabed.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Lower limit : Ferder, Mariner and Shackleton Formation beneath an unconformity which may be ice scoured.
Thickness: 3.4 metres +. Up to 15 metres on seismic sections.
Geographical Limits: Not defined.
Parent Unit: Reaper Glacigenic Group (REAP)
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
none recorded or not applicable
Reference(s):
Stoker, M S, Balson, P S, Long, D, and Tappin, D R. 2011. An overview of the lithostratigraphical framework for the Quaternary deposits on the United Kingdom continental shelf. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/11/03. 48pp. 
Rise, L, Rokoengen, K, Skinner, A C, and Long, D. 1984. Nordlige Nordsjø. Kvartaergeologisk kart mellom 60°30’ og 62°N, og øst for 1°Ø (Northern North Sea. Quaternary geology map between 60°30’ and 62°N, and east of 1°E) M 1:500 000. Institutt for kontinentalsokkelundersøkelser (IKU), Norway. 
Johnson, H, Richards, P C, Long, D, and Graham, C C. 1993. United Kingdom offshore regional report: the geology of the northern North Sea. (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey.) 
Cameron, T D J, and Holmes, R. 1999. The Continental Shelf. 125-139 in A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Bowen, D Q (editor). Special Report of the Geological Society of London, No. 23. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
none recorded or not applicable