Lexicon spatial scopes
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type: ConceptScheme
title: BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units: Spatial Scope of Definitions

General
type: Concept
in scheme: Lexicon spatial scopes

Local
type: Concept
in scheme: Lexicon spatial scopes
comment: Local (definition applies only to part of the outcrop). Local applicability should be used where a definition is provided for a wide-ranging unit on the basis of its first modern mapping in a relatively small area; the definition (based on the modern mapping) is assumed to have only "local" validity when first provided. Further information from eventual more widespread mapping should allow confirmation, augmentation and/or revision of th

Not applicable
type: Concept
in scheme: Lexicon spatial scopes
comment: Not applicable

Universal
type: Concept
in scheme: Lexicon spatial scopes
comment: Universal (definition applies to whole formation in the United Kingdom, at outcrop and subcrop, onshore and offshore).

Wider
type: Concept
in scheme: Lexicon spatial scopes
comment: Wider applicability is used more rarely for definitions recognised as having a wider validity than the UK. Relatively few will be considered for this status, but the option remains available.