The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Handsworth Rock

Computer Code: HWR Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Index Level
Age range: Duckmantian Substage (CB) — Duckmantian Substage (CB)
Lithological Description: Pale (whitish) fine-grained, thickly bedded sandstone, locally "shaly".
Definition of Lower Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Definition of Upper Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Thickness: Maximum of around 12m in the aea near Handsworth Hall, decreasing rapidly along the outcrop both to the northwest and the southeast.
Geographical Limits: Local development in the area southeast of Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Parent Unit: Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation (PMCM)
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
none recorded or not applicable
Reference(s):
none recorded or not applicable
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
none recorded or not applicable