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Appendix 4. Term Lists#

A4.1 Land Use#

This is a list of terms that can be used in the field Land use.

• Allotment • Arable • Arable and Pasture • Arable and Woodland • Archaeological Excavation • Built over • Churchyard • Coastland - above High Water • Coastland - Inter Tidal • Garden • Grassland - Pasture • Grassland - Undifferentiated • Heathland • Lawn • Mixed Rural • Mixed Urban • Moorland • Orchard • Park • Playing Field • Road • Waste Ground • Woodland

A4.2 Solid Geology#

This is a list of terms that can be used in the field Solid Geology. It was compiled from the EH GSdb and is not a complete list of all the classifications of the BGS.

• Ampthill and Kimmeridge Clay • Ashgill • Ashgill and Caradoc undifferentiated • Barton, Bracklesham & Bagshot Beds • Basal Conglomerate • Basalt, Dolerite, Camptonite and Allied Types • Bovey Formation, St Agnes Sands, etc. • Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds • • Caradoc • / Transition Group • Chalk (including Red Chalk) • Corallian • Coralline Beds • Cornbrash • Devonian Andesitic and Basaltic Lavas and Tuffs, undiff. • Devonian undifferentiated • Gabbro and allied types • Gneiss, Mica Schist • Granite, Syenite, Granophyre & allied types • Great Oolite • Hamstead Beds and Bembridge Marls • Hastings Beds • Inferior Oolite • Kimmeridge Clay • Lenham Beds • Llandeilo • Llandovery • Llanvirn & Arenig • London Clay • Lower Cambrian • Lower undifferentiated • Lower Devonian • Lower Greensand • Lower Lias • Lower Old Red Sandstone (including Downtonian) • Lower Westphalian (A+B) • Ludlow • Magnesian Limestone • Middle Cambrian • Middle Devonian () • Middle Lias • Middle/upper Devonian undifferentiated • Namurian ("Millstone Grit series") • Norwich Crag, Red Crag & Chillesford Clay • Oldhaven, Blackheath, Woolwich& Reading & Thanet Beds • Oolite undifferentiated • Oxford Clay and Kellaways Beds • & Sandstones undifferentiated • Permian Basal Breccias, Sandstones and Mudstones • Permian Mudstones • Portland Beds • Precambrian • Purbeck Beds • Rhyolite, Trachyte, Felsite, Elvans, and allied types • St Erth Beds (Cornwall) • Torridonian Sandstone and Grit • Tournaisian & Visean ("Carboniferous Limestone series") • Triassic Mudstones • Ultrabasic rock • Undifferentiated Gneiss of the Lewisian complex • Upper Cambrian, including Tremadoc • Upper Carboniferous undifferentiated • Upper Devonian & Upper Old Red Sandstone • Upper Greensand and Gault • Upper Lias • Upper Westphalian (C+D) • Weald Clay • Wenlock • Westphalian • Westphalian & Stephanian, undivided of "Barren Red"

A4.3 Drift Geology#

This is a list of terms that can be used for the field Drift Geology.

• Alluvium • Blown Sand • Boulder Clay and Morainic Drift • Brickearth, Mainly Loess • Clay with Flints • Colluvium • Crag • Glacial Sand and Gravel • Lacustrine Clays, Silts and Sands • Peat • Raised Beach and Marine Deposits • River Terrace Deposits • Sand and Gravel of Uncertain Age or Origin

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