| Computer Code: |
SHERI |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Pre-Pastonian/Baventian Stage (QV)
— Pre-Pastonian/Baventian Stage (QV) |
| Lithological Description: |
Comprises up to 2.5 m of freshwater organic muds, clays and sands. It includes Reid’s Upper Freshwater Bed at Beeston and the Forest Bed at Happisburgh. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Thickness: |
Up to 2.5 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Parent Unit: |
Cromer Forest-bed Formation (CRF)
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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): |
| Funnell, B M and West, R G. 1977. Preglacial Pleistocene deposits of East Anglia. 247-265 in Shotton, F W (Editor), British Quaternary studies: recent advances. [Oxford: Clarendon Press.] |
| 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. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
