Stockingford Shale GroupName
99861Province: Extends from Bedworth, northwestwards to just northeast of Woodlands Farm (SP 3688 8633 - 2849 9870).
Geologic Age: Terreneuvian Epoch-Tremadocian Age
Other: Mudstone with subsidiary sandstone. Stratified bedrock. Occurs onshore. Deposited during the Comley Series (Cambrian Period) - to - Tremadoc Series (Ordovician Period) (526-477.7 Ma BP). Pale to medium grey or dark grey to black micaceous mudstone, locally calcareous and pyritic, with silty or organic laminae and bands. Burrowed and bioturbated intervals. Some intercalated grey quartzose sandstone beds. 775m in type area (maximum aggregate of partial type sections). Sharp contact of mudstone on massive grey, glauconitic sandstone of the Woodlands Member (Hartshill Sandstone Formation). Some sediment mixing and flame structures at junction. Hard, grey, commonly fractured mudstone overlain with unconformity by beds that may comprise: Devonian sandstone or conglomerate, Carboniferous mudstone, sandstone and Triassic breccia or mudstone.
Usage: Current name
