BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number MR18630
Sample Donor Not entered
Rock name Mudstone, Calcareous. 'Original entry: Specimens Showing Junction Of Lower Lias Marly Limestone With Ferruginous Middle'
Stratigraphy Lower Jurassic.
Comments Specimens showing junction of Lower Lias marly limestone with ferruginous Middle Lias marlstone rock bed,Maidstone Rock,Middle to Upper Liassic,iron ore?,Collected byRV Melville
Locality details Wroxton Pit (North Oxon Ironstone Co.),Marion no.2 face in quarry WNW of Wroxton,Oxfordshire Ironstone Co., Chartridge Lodge, near Chesham
50k map sheet Banbury (201)

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Map reference SP 39 43
Year collected 1950 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions