Gray Sandstone Group Explained

Gray Sandstone Group
Type:Group
Age:Wenlockian (Silurian)
Prilithology:quartzitic sandstones
Otherlithology:mudstones
Country:Wales
Underlies:Red Marls Formation
Overlies:Coralliferous Group
Thickness:circa 274 - 609m
Extent:south Pembrokeshire

The Gray Sandstone Group is a late Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in west Wales. The strata are exposed in the coast around the Milford Haven area; outcrops occur either side of Marloes Bay. Besides quartzitic sandstones and mudstones, sandy rottenstones are found at outcrop. Fossils within the rottenstone beds include brachiopods and corals.[1] The rocks of this group have also previously been known as the Gray Sandstone Series.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Howells, M.F. 2007 British Regional Geology: Wales (Keyworth, Nottingham. British Geological Survey) pp86, 89-90
  2. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=GSA (BGS on-line lexicon of rock units)