The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Woodlands Member
| Computer Code: | WDMB | Preferred Map Code: | WM |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Comley Series (EC) — Comley Series (EC) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Grey to maroon, medium-grained glauconitic and micaceous sandstones. Faint cross-bedding but commonly appear massive and thick-bedded. Rare mudstone drapes. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Sharp, probably disconformable, contact on hardground surface developed on Home Farm Member limestone. Detritus from latter locally incorporated into basal bed. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Sharp contact with basal mudstone of Stockingford Shale Group. Some intermixing between sandstone and mudstone along contact. Upper c.1m of is bioturbated and locally calcareous. | ||
| Thickness: | 19m in type section. 9-19m between Hartshill and Woodlands Quarries. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | From Nuneaton town centre, extending northwest for 5.2km to Worthington Farm, Mancetter (SP3192 9572)(SP3529 9197-3192 9572). | ||
| Parent Unit: | Hartshill Sandstone Formation (CQ) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Woodlands Member
(WDMB)
Woodlands Member (WDMB) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | Southern end of Woodlands Quarry, 140m north-north-west of Hartshill Green. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Brasier, M D, Hewitt, R A, and Brasier, C J. 1978. On the late Precambrian - Early Cambrian Hartshill Formation of Warwickshire. Geological Magazine, Vol. 115/1, 21-36. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| E169 | |||