The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Temeside Group [Obsolete: use TSH]
| Computer Code: | TEG | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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| Status Code: | Index Level | ||
| Age range: | Pridoli Epoch (SO) — Pridoli Epoch (SO) | ||
| Lithological Description: | [Obsolete: use TSH] Grey-olive mudstones, dark red mudstones, siltstone, shale and buff sandstones, with calcareous bands. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Drawn at base of clay silt and sand of Ludlow Bone Bed of Downton Castle Formation where it rests conformably on siltstone of the Overton Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Drawn at conformable upward passage from shales of the Temeside Shales to red marls of the Ledbury Group. | ||
| Thickness: | 60-200m approx. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Midlands and Mid-Wales. | ||
| Parent Unit: | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Temeside Beds
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Temeside Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use TEG] (-1861) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Area | Ludlow, Shropshire, England. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Antia, D J. 1981. The Temeside Bone-Bed and associated sediments from Wales and the Welsh Borderland. Mercian Geologist, Vol. 8, 163-215. | |||
| Whitehead, T H, Robertson, T, Pocock, R W and Dixon, E E L. 1928. Geology of the country between Wolverhampton and Oakengates. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet 153 (England and Wales). | |||
| Greig, D C and others, 1989. Geology of the country around Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Wenlock Edge and Brown Clee. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. | |||
| Elles, G L and Slater, I L, 1906. The highest Silurian rocks of the Ludlow district. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 61, 195-221. | |||
| Earp, J R and others, 1971. The Welsh Borderland. British Regional Geology. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E180 | |||