The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Temeside Mudstone Formation
| Computer Code: | TSH | Preferred Map Code: | TSh |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Pridoli Epoch (SO) — Pridoli Epoch (SO) | ||
| Lithological Description: | A green to olive mudstone and siltstone with subsidiary green to brown micaceous sandstone and locally developed vertebrate bone beds. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | The base of the mudstones and siltstones resting conformably on Downton Castle Sandstone. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | The base of the red mudstones and siltstones of the overlying Ledbury Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | Ranging from 12 to 27 m thick at Ludlow, and 10 to 13 m thick South Staffordshire. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Wales Borders and South Staffordshire. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Milford Haven Subgroup (MIH) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Temeside Shales Formation [Obsolete Code: Use TSH]
(TEB)
Temeside Group [Obsolete Name And Code: See TSH] (TEG) Temeside Beds (-565) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | White and Lawson, 1989, location 4: old quarry in Tin-Mill Wood, south bank of the Teme, near Bringewood Forge Bridge, Downton. | ||
| Type Section | White and Lawson, 1989, location 5: south bank of Teme, near footbridge, east of Ludford Bridge, Ludlow. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| White, D E and Lawson, J D, 1989. The Pridoli Series in the Welsh Borderland and south central Wales. 131-141 in A global standard for the Silurian System. Holland, C H and Bassett, M G (editors) National Museum of Wales, Geological Series No. 9, Cardiff. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Ball, H W. 1951. The Silurian and Devonian rocks of Turners Hill and Gornal, South Staffordshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 62, 225-236. | |||
| Cocks, L R M, Holland, C H, Rickards, R B and Strachan, I, 1971. A correlation of Silurian rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society of London, Special Report No.1. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E168 E181 E167 E214 | |||