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    The Sherwood Sandstone Group is a Triassic lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) which is widespread in Britain, especially in the English...
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    Mudstone Group Tarporley Siltstone Formation (siltstones, mudstones and sandstones) including Retford Member (mudstones) Sherwood Sandstone Group Chester...
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  • offshore equivalent of the Roxby Formation and Sherwood Sandstone Group which occur in northeast England. The group comprises a lower Bunter Shale Formation...
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    that underlie the Jurassic-Triassic age Penarth Group. The name distinguishes it from the Old Red Sandstone which is largely Devonian in age, and with which...
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  • The Bromsgrove Sandstone is a geologic formation of the Sherwood Sandstone Group in England. It preserves fossils and ichnofossils of Chirotherium barthii...
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    stratigraphic units: the Sherwood Sandstone Group (arenaceous siliciclastic) (equivalent to the Bunter and lower Keuper) the Mercia Mudstone Group (argillaceous...
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    the Tarporley Siltstone Formation (Mercia Mudstone Group) and possibly the Sherwood Sandstone Group of the United Kingdom. Cladogram based on Ezcurra et...
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    S. (1997). "Clastic sabkhas and diachroneity at the top of the Sherwood Sandstone Group: East Irish Sea Basin". Geological Society of London, Special Publications...
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    part of the Sherwood Sandstone Group. Overlying these rocks in the Rugeley area are the, often pebbly, sandstones of the Helsby Sandstone Formation, formerly...
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  • Triassic sandstones and mudstones, but it also incorporates economically important halite beds. The sequences referred to the Sherwood Sandstone Group and...
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    Castle Sandstone overlying a layer of Lenton Sandstone. Both layers are members of the Sherwood Sandstone Group. The Nottingham Castle Sandstone is a medium-...
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    top): Mercia Mudstone Group Sidmouth Mudstone Formation Tarporley Siltstone Formation Sherwood Sandstone Group Helsby Sandstone Formation (divided into...
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  • Mercia Mudstone Group. The underlying Keuper Sandstone is now the Helsby Sandstone Formation at the top of the Sherwood Sandstone Group. Traditionally...
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  • Group strata is thus (uppermost, youngest at top): Mercia Mudstone Group Sherwood Sandstone Group Helsby Sandstone Formation (=Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation)...
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    the east and south of the Lake District. Red Triassic sandstones of the Sherwood Sandstone Group were widely quarried, with the largest quarries near St...
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  • Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation, completing the Sherwood Sandstone Group (SSG) sequence in this basin. The overlying Mercia Mudstone Group (MMG) has the...
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    the Helsby Sandstone Formation are assigned to the Sherwood Sandstone Group. It is this formation whose relatively hard-wearing sandstones form the higher...
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  • is the lateral equivalent of the combined Mercia Mudstone and Sherwood Sandstone Groups in the Irish Sea and onshore Britain. It contains the Otter Bank...
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    The Otter Sandstone Formation is an obsolete geological unit in England, now referred to as the Helsby Sandstone Formation. It preserves fossils dated...
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  • the Sherwood Sandstone Group is of Permian age. The two groups as currently defined replace earlier terminology which referred to the Bunter Sandstone, Keuper...
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  • the Triassic sandstones and conglomerates of the Chester Formation, formerly the Hawksmoor Formation within the Sherwood Sandstone Group. No rocks of...
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    Beacon Lodge Sandstones and Engine Vein Conglomerates. These latter members make up the Helsby Sandstone Formation of the Sherwood Sandstone Group. In the...
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    Sandstones of the Sherwood Sandstone Group are overlain by claystones and siltstones of the Mercia Mudstone Group and limestones of the Penarth Group...
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    from a sandstone outcrop of the Sherwood Sandstone Group, dating from the Early Triassic period around 250 million years ago. The sandstones are exposed...
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    overlies Magnesian Limestone strata and rocks assigned to the Sherwood Sandstone Group. The impacts of human habitation, particularly the inadequate treatment...
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    certain areas. The Sherwood sandstone group is the predominant rock that occurs, and comprises up to 205m of conglomerates and sandstone with scattered siltstone...
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    overlain unconformably by sandstones of the Sherwood Sandstone Group in the Newent Coalfield, by mudstones of the Mercia Mudstone Group in the Oxfordshire Coalfield...
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    The bedrock of the area is rock from the Sherwood sandstone group. There are a few outcrops of sandstone but elsewhere the bedrock is covered by drift...
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    Kingdom. The church is built of New Red Sandstone, which is abundant locally. Pevsner describes it as "local sandstone ashlar of a sombre brown hue which has...
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    Bunter sandstone (of the Sherwood Sandstone Group type), overlaid on top of Keuper marls (of the Mercia Mudstone Group). Nottinghamshire's sandstone ridges...
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