| Computer Code: |
YWOC |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Ediacaran Period (AD)
— Ediacaran Period (AD) |
| Lithological Description: |
A coarse volcaniclastic conglomerate, containing pebbles of purple rhyolite, felsite and quartzite. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Taken at the transition from coarse sandstones into conglomerate within the Bayston-Oakswood Formation; about 270 m of these sandstones separate the conglomerate from the underlying Radlith Conglomerate. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Taken at the transition from conglomerate into coarse sandstones of the Bayston-Oakswood Formation. |
| Thickness: |
60 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Welsh Borders, specifically Sheet 152 (Shrewsbury). Disappears beneath younger strata southwest of type area, yet may pass laterally into sandstones of the Bayston-Oakswood Formation to the northeast. |
| Parent Unit: |
Bayston-Oakswood Formation (BAGP)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Oakswood Conglomerate [Obsolete Name and Code: Use YWOC]
(-1294)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Crags in Oaks Wood. Pocock R W, et al, 1938 |
| Reference(s): |
| Greig D C, Wright, J E, Hains, B A, and Mitchell, G H. 1968. Geology of the country around Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Wenlock Edge and Brown Clee. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheet 166 (England and Wales). (London: HMSO.) 379pp. |
| Pocock R W, Whitehead T H, Wedd C B and Robertson T. 1938. Shrewsbury District including the Hanwood Coalfield. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, England and Wales. (London: H.M.S.O.). |
| Lapworth C and Watts W W. 1910. Shropshire. 739-769 in Geology in the field; the Jubilee Volume of the Geologists' Association (1858-1908). Monckton H W and Herries R S (editors). (London: Edward Stanford). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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E152
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