The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Keuper Sandstone [Obsolete: use AS]

Computer Code: KS Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Index Level
Age range: Early Triassic Epoch (TE) — Anisian Age (TA)
Lithological Description: [Obsolete: use AS]
Definition of Lower Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Definition of Upper Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Thickness: none recorded or not applicable
Geographical Limits: none recorded or not applicable
Parent Unit: none recorded or not applicable
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
none recorded or not applicable
Reference(s):
Murchison, R I and Strickland, H E. 1840. On the upper formations of the New Red Sandstone system in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2, Vol.5, 331-348. 
Symonds, W S. 1855. Notice of fossils from the Keuper Sandstones of Pendock, Worcestershire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol.11, 450-451. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
E098 E075 E097 E234 E217 E253