It's strange that extremely dodgy material can find its way into official records and then be accepted as "established fact" even if there is no evidence in support of it. A salutary lesson for all of us.......
I have found another reference to the "Penfro Till Formation" in this august publication.
Engineering Geology and Geomorphology of Glaciated and Periglaciated Terrains: Engineering Group Working Party Report by J. S. Griffiths and C. J. Martin
The Geological Society of London
Volume 28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/EGSP28
Publication date:
January 01, 2017
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/2101/Engineering-Geology-and-Geomorphology-of-Glaciated
The official BGS citation or record is still unchanged, in spite of me complaining a few years ago that the two cited "partial type sections" at Llandre and West Angle Bay are effectively useless, never having been properly described. At West Angle, there was a fundamental misunderstanding of the coastal exposure by Dixon and then DQ Bowen, and it appears that nobody can be bothered to correct the records.
This is a key post on this blog, in which I examine the evidence for the "pre-raised beach till deposit" at West Angle, and find it to be seriously defective:
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-west-angle-enigma-3-two-tills-or-one.html
See also:
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2017/02/penfro-till-formation.html
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2017/02/llandre-gravel-quarry-where-is-penfro.html
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/01/uk-quaternary-domains.html
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-curse-of-lithostratigraphy.html
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/01/penfro-formation-lexicon-correction.html
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2019/10/preseli-glacial-deposits.html
I am used to having a go at English Heritage and the archaeologocal establishment on this blog -- but it appears that the BGS and the geology establishment are not much better at either communicating or getting rid of myths dressed up as facts......
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