The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Tyne Limestone Formation
| Computer Code: | TYLS | Preferred Map Code: | TYLS |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Holkerian Substage (CQ) — Asbian Substage (CR) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Fine- to medium-grained sandstone, siltstone, seatearth and thin limestone; locally thin coals are developed; local development of volcanic tuffs and basalt lavas. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Conformable on Fell Sandstone Formation variably represented as base of Clattering Band, Kingbridge Limestone or Glencartholm Volcanic Member. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Conformable with Alston Formation. Top defined as base of overlying Low Tipalt or Callant Limestone. | ||
| Thickness: | Up to 850m | ||
| Geographical Limits: | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Parent Unit: | Yoredale Group (YORE) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Lower Liddesdale Group (A) [Obsolete Name And Code: Use TYLS]
(LRL)
Birdoswald Limestone Group [Obsolete Name And Code: Use TYLS] (BLG) Lower Liddesdale Group (B) [Obsolete Name And Code: Use TYLS] (LLDD) Border Group, Upper [Obsolete Name And Code: Use TYLS] (UBG) Upper Border Group [Obsolete Name And Code: Use TYLS] (UBO) Archerbeck Limestone Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: See AKB And TYLS] (ARLS) Lower Liddesdale Group (Part) And Upper Border Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use TYLS] (-4946) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | Lower Limestone Group (Undivided) [Obsolete: use ENT] Scremerston Coal Group [Obsolete: use SCG] Lawston Linn Coal Group |
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| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | Ferneyrigg Borehole (NY 98 SE/13). Frost & Holliday, 1980. | ||
| Type Section | Archerbeck Borehole from 504.7m to 1403.3m depth; registered No. NY 47 NW/14, Langholm (1:50 k. Sheet 11 [Scotland], Langholm.) Lumsden and Wilson, 1961; Lumsden et al., 1968. | ||
| Reference Section | Stonehaugh Borehole (NY 77 NE/2). Frost and Holliday, 1980; Smith and Holliday, 1991. | ||
| Reference Section | Ridsdale Borehole (NY 88 SE/1). Frost & Holliday, 1980. | ||
| Reference Section | Cairny Croft Borehole (NY 66 NE/2). Frost & Holliday, 1980. | ||
| Reference Section | River Black Lyne, north of Dappleymoor Fault, between Dodgsonstown Ford and bend SW of Cumcrook, Bewcastle (1:50 000 Sheet 12 (England & Wales), Bewcastle. Day, 1970. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Nairn, A E M. 1956. The lower Carboniferous rocks between the rivers Esk and Annan Dumfriesshire. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, 22, p.80-93. | |||
| Peach, B N and Horne, J .1903. The Canonbie coalfield: its geological structure and relations to the Carboniferous rocks of the north of England and central Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society Edinburgh, 40, 835-77. | |||
| Lumsden G I, Tulloch W, Howells M F and Davies A. 1967. The geology of the neighbourhood of Langholm. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheet 11 (Scotland). | |||
| Day, J B W, and others. 1970. Geology of the neighbourhood around Bewcastle. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 12. (England and Wales). | |||
| Frost, D V, and Holliday, D W. 1980. Geology of the country around Bellingham. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 13 (England and Wales). | |||
| Lumsden G I and Wilson R B. 1961. The stratigraphy of the Archerbeck Borehole, Canonbie Dumfriesshire. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, No.18, 1-89. | |||
| Smith, S A and Holliday, D W. 1991. The sedimentology of the Middle and Upper Border groups (Visean) of the Stonehaugh Borehole, Northumberland. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol.48, 435-446. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E001 E002 E003 E004 E006 E008 E009 E012 E013 E014 S005 S006 S010 S011 S006 E049 | |||