The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Upper Comley Sandstone Formation
| Computer Code: | UCSS | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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| Status Code: | Pending Upgrade | ||
| Age range: | St David's Series (ED) — St David's Series (ED) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Coarse- to fine-grained calcareous sandstones and interbedded shaly mudstones. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Unconformable on the Lower Comley Sandstone Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | A non-sequence or unconformity with various Upper Cambrian mudstone formations, at least locally. | ||
| Thickness: | To 200m | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Welsh borderland, Shropshire. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Not Applicable (-) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Upper Comley Sandstone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use UCSS]
(-1250)
Upper Comley Series [Obsolete Name and Code: Use UCMG, UCSS] (-1886) Comley Sandstone Group [Obsolete Name And Code: See LCSS And UCSS] (CMS) Upper Comley Group [Obsolete Name And Code: Use UCSS] (UCMG) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
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| Partial Type Section | Comley Quarry and adjacent Quarry Ridge to south. Cobbold, E S. 1909. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Rushton, A W A. 1974. The Cambrian of Wales and England, 43-121 in Holland, C H (editor), The Cambrian of the British Isles, Norden and Spitzbergen (Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the world, 2). [London: John Wiley and Son.] | |||
| Cobbold, E S. 1910. On some further excavations among the Cambrian rocks of Comley, Shropshire. 1908. Report of the British Association (for 1909), 181-186. | |||
| Cobbold, E S. 1911. Third report on excavations among the Cambrian rocks of Comley, Shropshire, 1909. Report of the British Association (for 1910), 113-122. | |||
| Cobbold, E S. 1925. Notes on the Camrbian area of Comley. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol.36, 367-374. | |||
| Cobbold, E S. 1909. On some excavations in the Cambrian rocks of Comley, Shropshire, 1907. Report of the British Association (for 1908), 231-242. | |||
| Greig D C, Wright, J E, Hains, B A and Mitchell, G H. 1968. Geology of the country around Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Wenlock Edge and Brown Clee. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheet 166 (England and Wales). (London: H.M.S.O.). 379pp. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| none recorded or not applicable | |||