| Computer Code: |
BEB |
Preferred Map Code: |
Beb |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Homerian Age (SH)
— Homerian Age (SH) |
| Lithological Description: |
Coarse-grained shelly limestone, interbedded with impersistent siltstone beds in lower and upper parts. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Transitional. Base of limestone-siltstone sequence of above type, resting conformably on calcareous siltstones of the underlying Tickwood Beds; lateral passage to reef facies. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Base of thinly bedded crinoidal limestones of the overlying (undivided) uppermost part of the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation. |
| Thickness: |
15 - 30m |
| Geographical Limits: |
North Shropshire. |
| Parent Unit: |
Much Wenlock Limestone Formation (WEL)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Benthall Beds [Obsolete Name and Code: Use BEB]
(-1342)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Bowers Brook, Benthall Edge. |
| Reference(s): |
| Hamblin, R J O and Coppack, B C, 1995. Geology of Telford and the Coalbrookdale Coalfield. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, parts of Sheets 152 and 153 (England and Wales). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E152
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