The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Burway Formation
| Computer Code: | BUGP | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Ediacaran Period (AD) — Ediacaran Period (AD) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Flaggy, green-grey mudstones, siltstones and sandstones. More massive sandstones at some horizons and with some bands of purple-grey siltstone or mudstone. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Drawn at the base of silicified dust tuff of the Buxton Rock of the Burway Formation where it rests conformably upon green-grey shales of the Stretton Shale Formation.. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Drawn at the conformable upward passage from coarse green-grey sandstone of the Cardingmill Grit Member of the Burway Formation to purple shaly mudstones and siltstones of the Synalds Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | About 180m | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Near Church Stretton, Shropshire. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Stretton Group (YST) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Burway Group
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Burway Formation [Obsolete Code: Use BUGP] (YSB) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Area | Ashes Hollow and Devils Mouth, near Chrurch Stretton, Shropshire. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Lapworth C and Watts W W. 1910. Shropshire. 739-769 in Geology in the field; the Jubilee Volume of the Geologists' Association (1858-1908). Monckton H W and Herries R S (editors). (London: Edward Stanford). | |||
| Greig D C, Wright, J E, Hains, B A and Mitchell, G H. 1968. Geology of the country around Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Wenlock Edge and Brown Clee. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheet 166 (England and Wales). (London: H.M.S.O.). 379pp. | |||
| Wright, J E, 1968. The geology of the Church Stretton area (Explanation of 1:25 000 Geological Sheet SO49). Institute of Geological Sciences. | |||
| Whittard, W F, 1952. A geology of South Shropshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol.63, p.145. | |||
| James, J H. 1956. The structure and stratigraphy of part of the Pre-Cambrian outcrop between Church Stretton and Linley, Shropshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol.112, 315-337. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| none recorded or not applicable | |||