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==Scandal Beck Limestone Formation [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=SCBL (SCBL)], Carboniferous, Northern England Province ==
Scandal Beck Limestone Formation is part of the [[Great Scar Limestone Group]]
=== Name ===
The name was first proposed by Mitchell (1972)<ref name="Mitchell72">Mitchell, M.1972.The base of the Viséan in south-west and north-west England.''Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society'', Vol. 39, 151–160.</ref> and given formation status by Pattison (1990)<ref name="Pattison90">Pattison, J.1990.Geology of the Orton and Sunbiggin Tarn districts: 1:10 000 sheets NY60NW and NE.''British Geological Survey Technical Report'', WA/90/12</ref>.

=== Lithology ===
The Scandal Beck Limestone Formation largely comprises dark grey, fine- to medium-grained, variable but commonly quite thin-bedded, packstone. Interbeds of sandstone, siltstone or mudstone between these fossiliferous limestones are common.

=== Genetic interpretation ===
Millward et al. (2003)<ref name="Millward">Millward, D, McCormac, M, Hughes, R A, Entwistle, D C, Butcher, A, and Raines, M G.2003.Geology of the Appleby district.''Sheet explantion of the British Geological Survey'',Sheet 30 (England and Wales)</ref> considered the depositional environment to be a deep water carbonate ramp.

=== Stratotype ===
The type area is Scandal Beck (NY.718.040), in the Ravenstonedale area.

===Lower and upper and boundaries===

The base of the formation is conformable on the the Algal Nodular Beds at the top of Coldbeck Limestone Formation, the latter comprising well bedded limestones with mudstone partings, and flaggy dolostones with algal macrostructures.

A succession of sandstones, oolitic limestones and layers of quartz pebbles, the Brownber Formation (BNBF), conformably overlies the Scandal Beck Limestone Formation in Ravenstonedale (Figure 9, Column 16).

=== Thickness ===
The formation is about 120 m thick at Ravenstonedale, thinning to the north-east and south-west. It is about 50 m thick in the Appleby district.

=== Distribution and regional correlation ===
The Ravenstonedale area.

=== Age and biostratigraphical characterisation ===
Chadian to early Arundian? (see Mitchell, 1978, fig. 60<ref>Mitchell, M.1978.Dinantian.168–177 in The geology of the Lake District. Moseley, F (editor).''Occasional Publication of the Yorkshire Geological Society'', No. 3</ref>, col..D after Taylor et al., 1971<ref>Taylor, B J, Burgess, I C, Land, D H, Mills, D A C, Smith, D B, and Warren, P T.1971.British regional geology: northern England (4th edition). (London: HMSO for Institute of Geological Sciences.)</ref>; Ramsbottom in Dunham and Wilson, 1985<ref>Dunham, K C, and Wilson, A A.1985.Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield: Volume 2, Stainmore to Craven.''Economic Memoir of the British Geological Survey'', Sheets 40, 41 and 50, parts 31, 32, 51, 60 and 61(England and Wales)</ref>, p. 28; George et al., 1976, p. 39, fig. 11:4<ref>George, T N, Johnson, G A L, Mitchell, M, Prentice, J E, Ramsbottom, W H C, Sevastopulo, G D, and Wilson, R B.1976.A correlation of Dinantian rocks in the British Isles.''Geological Society of London Special Report'', No.7.</ref>; Millward et al., 2003, fig. 7<ref name="Millward"></ref>). Stratigraphically significant fossils within the formation include the coral ''Dorlodotia pseudovermiculare''.

== References ==
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[[Category:Carboniferous lithostratigraphical nomenclature]]

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