The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Lickey Quartzite Formation
Computer Code: | LQ | Preferred Map Code: | LQ |
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Status Code: | Full | ||
Age range: | Ordovician Period (O) — Ordovician Period (O) | ||
Lithological Description: | Quartzite, pale grey and purple (ranging from lithic arenite, subarkose to quartzite) and thin beds of fissile mudstone and possibly tuff. | ||
Definition of Lower Boundary: | Not seen, fault-bounded inlier. | ||
Definition of Upper Boundary: | Unconformable boundary with the overlying Rubery Formation (Llandovery) or Halesowen Formation (Carboniferous). | ||
Thickness: | Not fully proved - no reliable estimate | ||
Geographical Limits: | West Midlands (South Staffordshire). | ||
Parent Unit: | Not Applicable (-) | ||
Previous Name(s): | [Obsolete Code: Use LQ]
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Lickey Sandstone [Obsolete Name And Code: Use LQ] (LIS) |
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Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Stratotypes: | |||
Reference Section | Walsall Borehole [SP 09NW/33] from 382 m to 391.7 m depth (Butler, 1937). | ||
Type Area | Lickey Hills between Kendal End [SP 001 746] and Holly Hill [SO 991 784]; Cofton Hill [SP 001 753] and Rednall Gorge [SO 998 759]. | ||
Reference(s): | |||
Butler, A J. 1937. On Silurian and Cambrian rocks encountered in a deep boring at Walsall, South Staffordshire. Geological Magazine, Vol. 74, 241-257. | |||
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. | |||
Lapworth, C, 1899. Sketch of the geology of the Birmingham district, with special reference to the long excursion of 1898. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 15, 313-415. | |||
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). | |||
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
E168 E183 |