The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Denbigh Grits Group [Obsolete: use DG]
Computer Code: | DFG | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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Status Code: | Full | ||
Age range: | Wenlock Epoch (SW) — Wenlock Epoch (SW) | ||
Lithological Description: | [Obsolete: use DG] Poorly sorted greywackes with siltstones and mudstones. (Correlative of Denbigh Grits, Pen-y-Glog Grits of Dee Valley. | ||
Definition of Lower Boundary: | Drawn in passage sequence where pale grey mudstones and siltstones of Llandovery age give way upwards to the darker greywackes, siltstones and mudstones of Denbigh Grits Group. | ||
Definition of Upper Boundary: | Drawn at conformable upward passage from greywackes, siltstones and mudstones of the Denbigh Grits Group to yellow and grey banded mudstones of the Lower Nantglyn Flags. | ||
Thickness: | 1100m. | ||
Geographical Limits: | North-east Wales (Clwyd). | ||
Parent Unit: | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Previous Name(s): | Denbigh(shire) Grits [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DFG]
(-3988)
Fynddog Grits [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DFG] (-4602) |
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Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Stratotypes: | |||
Type Area | Denbigh Moors, Clwyd. | ||
Reference(s): | |||
Boswell, P G H. 1926. A contribution to the geology of the eastern part of the Denbighshire Moors. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 82, p. 562. | |||
Hughes, T McK. 1879. The Silurian rocks of the Vale of Clwyd. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol.35, p.695. | |||
Ramsay, A C. 1866. The geology of North Wales. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Vol.3, | |||
Murchison, R I. 1958. Sandstones and grits, a lithological variety of lower portion of the Wenlock Formation. Siluria, p.116. London. | |||
Cummins, W A. 1957. The Denbigh Grits: Wenlock greywackes in Wales. Geological Magazine, Vol.94, 437-451. | |||
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
none recorded or not applicable |