The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Cowleigh Park Formation
Computer Code: | CPA | Preferred Map Code: | CPa |
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Status Code: | Full | ||
Age range: | Llandovery Epoch (SL) — Llandovery Epoch (SL) | ||
Lithological Description: | Interbedded purple, brown, green and grey sandstones, grits and conglomerates and shales. | ||
Definition of Lower Boundary: | Unconformable on Proterozoic rocks or faulted boundary with Proterozoic or Cambrian rocks. | ||
Definition of Upper Boundary: | Non sequence, overlain by Wyche Formation. | ||
Thickness: | 300m - 450m | ||
Geographical Limits: | Cowleigh Park-Malvern district, Hereford and Worcester; also Eastnor area, southern Malverns (Ziegler and others, 1968). | ||
Parent Unit: | May Hill Sandstone Group (MHS) | ||
Previous Name(s): | Cowleigh Park Formation [Obsolete Code: Use CPA]
(CWP)
Cowleigh Park Beds (-813) |
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Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Stratotypes: | |||
Reference Section | Exposures in bank by football pitch, West Malvern. | ||
Type Area | Cowleigh Park area, near Malvern. | ||
Reference Section | Exposures by Cowleigh Road. | ||
Reference(s): | |||
Ziegler, A M, Cocks, L R M and McKerrow, 1968. The Llandovery transgression of the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology, Vol.11, 736-782. | |||
Groom, T T, 1910. The Malvern and Abberley Hills and the Ledbury district. Geology in the Field. Jubilee, Vol.II, Geologists' Association, p.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). | |||
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. | |||
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
E199 |