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The Mercia Mudstone Group is now divided into five formations recognised and mappable across its entire outcrop and subcrop. The formations are a mix of mudstones, siltstones, sandstones and halites. Historically this sequence of rocks has been subdivided in different ways with different names in each of the basinal areas in which it is found.
A pile up to several hundred metres thick of Triassic sandstones, mudstones and siltstones underlies Wirral, Liverpool and the coastal plains to the north. The following sequence is encountered within Merseyside: Mercia Mudstone Group. Sidmouth Mudstone Formation (formerly 'Keuper Marl') Tarporley Siltstone Formation (formerly 'Keuper Waterstones')
A further presumed unconformity separates the breccia from the mudstones of the overlying Mercia Mudstone Group which underlie the larger part of the low ground between Exmoor and North Hill. At the top of the group is a 25m thickness of mudstones with gypsum referred to as the Blue Anchor Formation. Above this are around 12m thickness of ...
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Mercia's exact evolution at the start of the Anglo-Saxon era remains more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex. Mercia developed an effective political structure and was Christianised later than the other kingdoms. [5] Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century.
The oldest rocks exposed at or near the surface of Lincolnshire are the sandstones and mudstones of the early Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group.Rocks from this and the overlying Mercia Mudstone and Penarth groups occur in the northwest of the county and along its western border but are generally concealed beneath a thick cover of recent deposits.
A mudstone: few small components in a micritic matrix, width of picture is 32 mm. In the Dunham classification (Dunham, 1962 [11]) system of limestones, a mudstone is defined as a mud-supported carbonate rock that contains less than 10% grains.
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