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The National Grid and other Ordnance Survey data are used with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Licence No: 100017897/2009. Keywords Carboniferous, southern Britain, Lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, biostratigraphy Front cover View of the Upper Tawe Valley, South Wales Coalfield, showing Visean limestones of the Pembroke Limestone Group, exposed in prominent scarps. They are overlain by the Twrch Sandstone Formation (Marros Group) of Namurian age (P007583). Bibliographical reference Waters, C N, Waters, r a, BarClay, W J, and Davies, J r. 2009. A lithostratigraphical framework for the Carboniferous successions of southern Great Britain (Onshore). British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/09/01. ISBN 978 0 85272 626 6 Copyright in materials derived from the British Geological Survey’s work is owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and/or the authority that commissioned the work. You may not copy or adapt this publication without first obtaining permission. Contact the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Section, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, e-mail ipr@bgs.ac.uk. You may quote extracts of a reasonable length without prior permission, provided a full acknowledgement is given of the source of the extract. BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RESEARCH REPORT RR/09/01 A lithostratigraphical framework for the Carboniferous successions of southern Great Britain (onshore) C N Waters, R A Waters, W J Barclay and J R Davies Contributors: E C Freshney and B E Leveridge Your use of any information provided by the British Geological Survey (BGS) is at your own risk. Neither BGS nor the Natural Environment Research Council gives any warranty, condition or representation as to the quality, accuracy or completeness of the information or its suitability for any use or purpose. All implied conditions relating to the quality or suitability of the information, and all liabilities arising from the supply of the information (including any liability arising in negligence) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. © NERC 2009. All rights reserved Keyworth, Nottingham British Geological Survey 2009
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Page 5 and 6: Foreword This report is the publish
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Page 9: Summary The Stratigraphy Committee
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Page 16 and 17: 54°N Volcanic rocks Culm Supergrou
Page 18 and 19: Table 3 Summary of the chronostrati
Page 20 and 21: Table 4 Westphalian chronostratigra
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Page 28 and 29: PERMIAN 100 DUCKMANTIAN BOLSOVIAN L
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Page 34 and 35: Thickness Up to 90 m Distribution P
Page 36 and 37: calcisiltites of the Clitheroe Lime
Page 38 and 39: Bowland Basin, and to the south-eas
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Page 42 and 43: Reference sections Woo Dale Borehol
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Page 46 and 47: Age Brigantian 4.5.8.1 upper miller
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dominated shelf environment (Carney
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Genetic interpretation There are co
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on, and overstepping, Tournaisian l
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PERMIAN MARSDENIAN Depth in metres
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Lower and upper boundaries The base
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Llangollen [SJ 23 45], and near Osw
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Type section The lowermost exposed
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Type section Stream section at Whit
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Limestone in the Middop Anticline (
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Reference sections Composite sectio
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Man, lavas, volcaniclastic debris f
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Age Late Asbian to early Brigantian
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Age Brigantian 4.7.7 Bowland Shale
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Distribution Does not crop out. Pro
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intertonguing with the Cefn-y-fedw
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Thickness From about 200 m at north
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the marine band is absent from the
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Biostratigraphical characterisation
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Thickness About 55 to 215 m Distrib
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WBH Isopachs upon the Rossendale Fo
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ASTURIAN BOLSOVIAN Phillipsi Upper
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is taken at the top of the dark gre
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Age Bolsovian 4.9.3.6 hemsWorth mem
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Age Westphalian 4.10.2 Halesowen Fo
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name for part of the Silurian in th
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5 South Wales-Bristol The area sout
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British Geological Survey Research
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et al., 2002). The undivided Avon G
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Lower and upper boundaries The base
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Genetic interpretation The formatio
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Lithology Dark grey, thin- to mediu
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complex of ooidal barrier shoal (Co
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5.2.14 Oxwich Head Limestone Format
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the Abercriban Oolite Subgroup and
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Lithology Massive, medium-grained,
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Lithology A heterolithic, lenticula
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Regional correlation Same age as, a
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Age Tournaisian 5.2.27 Vallis Limes
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1977). These deposits were subseque
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Type section North side of Cheddar
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the type section of the Kenfig Bore
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(Stubblefield and Trotter, 1957), t
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a WARWICKSHIRE GROUP SOUTH WALES CO
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The Subcrenatum Marine Band is not
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Valley, south Wales: exposes 44 m o
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Mangotsfield members, maintaining t
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Reference section Hursley Hill Bore
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litharenite petrography of the sand
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Reference section Steeple Aston Bor
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6 South-west England To the south o
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SOUTH DEVON BASIN TAVY BASIN RUSEY
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laterally into the numerous middle/
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pale to dark grey, massive to plana
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entire member, 7 m thick, is seen t
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have been obtained from the ?underl
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formation intertongues with the Buc
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Age ?Famennian to Visean 6.6 CHUDLE
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Thickness Unknown, but a minimum th
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Lithology Thin-bedded mudstones, si
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BriDge, D m, CarNey, J N C, laWley,
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falCoN, N l, and keNt, p e. 1960. G
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lovell, r W W. 1978. The sedimentol
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elations of its older stratified de
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Waters, C N, glover, B W, and poWel
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Supergroup Group Sub-group Formatio
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Supergroup Group Formation Member C
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Group Formation Member Tamar (TAMA)
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Appendix 2 Redundant lithostratigra
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ACH Mount Ararat Chert Formation Co
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