Appleby Group

Appleby Group
Stratigraphic range: Permian
Type Group
Underlies Cumbrian Coast Group
Thickness variable
Lithology
Primary sandstone
Other mudstone, breccia
Location
Region northwest England
Type section
Named for Appleby-in-Westmorland

The Appleby Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the succession of Permian Period aeolian and fluviatile rock strata which occur in northwest England and beneath the Irish Sea in the United Kingdom.[1]

The Appleby Group unconformably overlies a variety of older rock strata. It is succeeded (overlain) by the Cumbrian Coast Group [2]

References

  1. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=APY BGS Lexicon of named rock units: Appleby Gp
  2. British Geological Survey 1:625,000 scale geological map Bedrock geology: UK South (5th edn) BGS, Keyworth, Notts
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