| Computer Code: |
WIGM |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Ipswichian Stage (QI)
— Ipswichian Stage (QI) |
| Lithological Description: |
Lenses of "drab" clay within red clay containing Turritella communis, foraminifera and ostracods, recovered from a borehole only. The fossilliferous deposits are possibly Ipswichian in age, but were probably transported as glacial rafts from the Solway Firth during the Early Scottish Glaciation. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Core recovery was poor, but the clays apparently rested on bedrock (Stanwix Shale) within a buried channel at about 46m depth. (-21m OD) at Wigton. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Core recovery poor, but the fossilliferous deposits were found beneath "clay containing foreign erratics", presumably till. |
| Thickness: |
Probably a few metres, but core recovery was poor. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Found only at Wigton, north Cumbria. |
| Parent Unit: |
Gillcambon Till Formation (GCBTI)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
Wigton Formation
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
BGS Registered borehole NY/24NE/2 drilled 594m south of Wigton Station by British Rayophane Ltd. Eastwood, et al. 1968. Core examined by S E Hollingworth. |
| Reference(s): |
| Eastwood, T, Hollingworth, S E, Rose, W C C, and Trotter, F M. 1968. Geology of the country around Cockermouth and Caldbeck. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, England and Wales, Sheet 23. |
| Thomas, G S P. 1999. Northern England. 91-98 in Bowen, D Q (Editor), A revised correlation of Quaternary and Neogene deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report No.23. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
