The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Clent Formation
| Computer Code: | CLT | Preferred Map Code: | Cle |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Cisuralian Epoch (PLC) — Cisuralian Epoch (PLC) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Breccia, sub-angular, with red-brown mudstone matrix, clasts predominantly 'Precambrian-Uriconian' volcanic rocks and subordinate Lower Palaeozoic rocks. Red pebbly mudstone and sandstone in Wolverhampton area. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Unconformable/disconformable boundary between underlying mudstone/sandstone of Salop Formation (Enville Member) and coarse breccia above (in type area); gradational boundary in Wolverhampton area. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Generally, modern erosion surface in type area, locally overlain unconformably by Kidderminster Formation (Triassic). | ||
| Thickness: | c.138m in Clent Hills, c.240m in Wolverhampton/Baggeridge area to north. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | West Midlands; South Staffordshire and Birmingham areas. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Warwickshire Group (WAWK) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Nechells Breccia [Obsolete Name And Code: Use CLT]
(NCHB)
Clent Breccias [Obsolete Name And Code: See CLT] (CLE) Trappoid Breccia (-791) Breccia Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CLT] (-3309) Clent Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CLT] (-3310) Clent Hills Breccia [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CLT] (-137) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | (a) Breccia lithofacies; Romsley Borehole No.31 (SO 97 NE/216); lower boundary at 8.85m depth (Glover and Powell, 1996). | ||
| Reference Section | (b) Mudstone/sandstone lithofacies; Penn No. 5 Borehole (SO 89 NE/6); from 83m depth (base) to 20m depth (top) (Glover and Powell, 1996). | ||
| Type Area | Clent Hills, near Hagley; from Park Visitors Car Park [SO 935 807] to summit of Clent Hills. | ||
| Reference Section | (c) (Mudstone dominated strata), Penn Common, Penn Brook (stream section). | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Old R A, Hamblin, R J O, Ambrose, K, and Warrington G. 1991. Geology of the country around Redditch. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 183 (England and Wales). | |||
| Waters, C N, Smith, K, Hopson, P M, Wilson, D, Bridge, D M, Carney, J N, Cooper, A H, Crofts, R G, Ellison, R A, Mathers, S J, Moorlock, B S P, Scrivener, R C, McMillan, A A, Ambrose, K, Barclay, W J, and Barron, A J M. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Southern Britain. British Geological Survey, 1 poster. | |||
| Glover, B W, 1991. Geology of the Wombourne District. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/90/76. | |||
| Powell, J H, 1991. Geology of the Lye District. British Geological Survey Technical Report. WA/91/59 | |||
| Powell, J H, Glover, B W and Waters, C N, 1992. A Geological background for planning and development in the `Black Country'. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/92/33. | |||
| King, W W, 1923. The unconformity below the trappoid (Permian?) breccias. Proceedings of the Worcestershire Naturalists' Club, Vol.8, p.3-8. | |||
| Eastwood, T, Whitehead, T H, and Robertson, T. 1925. The geology of the country around Birmingham. Memoir of the British Geological Survey of Great Britain. | |||
| King, W W, 1893. Clent Hills Breccia. Midland Naturalist, Vol.16, 25-37. | |||
| Besley B M. 1988. Palaeogeographic implications of late Westphalian to early Permian red-beds, central England. In Sedimentation in a synorogenic basin complex. Besley B M, and Kelling, G (editors). | |||
| Peace, G R and Besly, B M. 1997. End-Carboniferous fold-thrust structures, Oxfordshire, UK: implications for the structural evolution of the late Variscan foreland of south-central England. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 154, 225 - 237. | |||
| Wills, L J and Shotton, W. 1938. A quartzite breccia at the base of the Trias in a trench near Tessall Lane. Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society, Vol. 16, 181 - 183. | |||
| Wills, L J. 1956. Concealed Coalfields. (Glasgow & London: Blackie). | |||
| Glover, B M and Powell, J H, 1996. Interaction of climate and tectonics upon alluvial architecture: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian sequences at the southern margin of the Pennine Basin, UK. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, Vol. 121, 13 - 34. | |||
| Whitehead, T H and Eastwood, T, 1927. The geology of the southern part of the South Staffordshire Coalfield. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. | |||
| Boulton, W S. 1924. On a recently discovered breccia bed underlying Nechells (Birmingham) and its relation to the red rocks of the district. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 80, 343-373. | |||
| Smith, D B and 4 others, 1974. A correlation of Permian rocks in the British Isles. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol.130, 1-45. | |||
| Powell, J H, Chisholm, JI, Bridge, D M, Rees, J G, Glover, B W and Besly, B M. 2000. Stratigraphical framework for Westphalian to Early Permian red-bed successions of the Pennine Basin. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/99/10. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E167 E183 E168 | |||