The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Wildmoor Sandstone Member
| Computer Code: | WRS | Preferred Map Code: | WrS |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Early Triassic Epoch (TE) — Early Triassic Epoch (TE) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Sandstones, generally silty or argillaceous, fine- to medium-grained, bright orange-red to dark brick-red, with subordinate siltstone and mudstone; pebbles rare. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Transitional, at top of sequence dominated by pebbly sandstones and conglomerates of the Kidderminster Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Marked by normally disconformable base of Bromsgrove Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | c.284m (Worcester area); c.200m (Sheet 123), 0-200m South Staffs and Worcestershire, 0-134m Redditch area. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Stafford and Worcester Basins. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Wilmslow Sandstone Formation (WLSF) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Wildmoor Beds [Obsolete Name and Code: Use WRS]
(-1285)
Upper Mottled Sandstone [Obsolete Name And Code: See WLSF And WRS] (UMS) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Area | Wildmoor, north of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (Warrington and others, 1980). | ||
| Reference Section | Wildmoor Pumping Station No.2 Borehole, East Worcestershire Waterworks Company, 0-106m depth. (SO97NE/422). Wills, 1976, p 45-48. | ||
| Reference Section | Borehole No.4 (Wills, 1970), east Worcestershire Water Works Company, Bellington Pumping Station, 3 miles east of Kidderminster, c.120-190m depth. (SO87NE/67). | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Warrington, G, Audley-Charles, M G, Elliott, R E, Evans, W B, Ivimey-Cook, H C, Kent, P E, Robinson, P L, Shotton, F W and Taylor, F M. 1980. A correlation of the Triassic rocks in the British Isles. Special Report of the Geological Society of London, No.13. | |||
| Wills, L J. 1976. The Trias of Worcestershire and Warwickshire. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No.76/2. | |||
| Ambrose, K, Hough, E, Smith, N J P, and Warrington, G. 2014. Lithostratigraphy of the Sherwood Sandstone Group of England, Wales and south-west Scotland. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/14/01. | |||
| Wills, L J, 1970. The Bunter Formation at the Bellington Pumping Station of the East Worcestershire Waterworks Company. Mercian Geologist 3, No.4, p.387-397. | |||
| Rees, J G and Wilson, A A. 1998. Geology of the country around Stoke-on-Trent. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 123 (England and Wales). | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E123 E216 E183 E139 E154 E167 | |||