Lower Palaeozoic lithostratigraphical classification in the English Lake District

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Abstract
In the English Lake District lithostratigraphical classification has not kept pace with either the international and national codes or the code of the Geological Society (Holland et al. 1978). Probelms arise, firstly, from acceptance by several of those working in the area, of terms used in by‐gone days, such as ‘Borrowdale Volcanic Series’, and secondly, and more importantly, because individuals have specialized on certain parts of the sequence (the Skiddaw Slates, the Coniston Limestone, etc.), and have erected classifications for these rocks without reference to other parts of the succession. These classifications are examined and modified in such a way that the lithostratigraphical subdivisions are consistent for the whole of the Lower Palaeozoic sequence of the Lake District, and also relate to the international code as it is applied in other regions. The basic Lake District stratigraphical terminology of the last century is, however, retained in all its essentials.