| Computer Code: |
WY |
Preferred Map Code: |
Wy |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Telychian Age (ST)
— Telychian Age (ST) |
| Lithological Description: |
Grey, brown and pale green mudstones and siltstones with thin tabular green sandstones. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Non sequence with underlying Cowleigh Park Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Conformably overlain by Woolhope Limestone. |
| Thickness: |
150m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Malvern Hills to Ankerdine Hill. |
| Parent Unit: |
May Hill Sandstone Group (MHS)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Wych Beds [Obsolete Name and Code: Use WY]
(-1935)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Wyche area, Malvern Hills. |
| Reference Section |
Lower boundary: Football pitch section, west Malvern (Barclay, W J and others. 1997). |
| Reference Section |
Upper boundary: Lane section, Birches Farm, west Malvern. (Barclay, W J and others. 1997). |
| Reference(s): |
| Phipps, C B, and Reeve, F A E. 1967. Stratigraphy and geological history of the Malvern, Abberley and Ledbury Hills. Geological Journal, Vol. 5, p. 339-368. |
| Groom, T T. 1910. The Malvern and Abberley Hills and the Ledbury district. Geology in the Field. Geologists' Association, Jubilee, Vol. 2, 698-738. |
| Barclay, W J, Ambrose K, Chadwick, R A, and Pharaoh, T C. 1997. Geology of the country around Worcester. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 199 (England and Wales). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
E199
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