Benton, M.J., Cook, E. & Turner, P. 2002. Permian and Triassic Red Beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series, No. 24, JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 1 86 107 493 X.

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Permian and Triassic Red Beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain

Contents

Title page and preliminaries

Contents

Acknowledgements

Access to the countryside

Preface N.V Ellis

1 General introduction

Scope of the volume

The Permo-Triassic world

Stratigraphy of the Permian and Triassic successions

The Penarth Group

Structural setting

Sedimentology

Red beds of the British Permo-Triassic succession

Palaeontology of the British Permo-Triassic succession

The selection of Permian and Triassic red-bed and Penarth Group GCR sites

2 British Permian red beds

Permian red-bed GCR sites

Red beds of the Moray Firth Basin, north-east Scotland

Introduction

Clashach to Covesea, Morayshire

Masonshaugh Quarries, Morayshire

The Permian red beds of south-west Scotland

Introduction

Corrie Shore to Brodick, Isle of Arran

Hapland Burn, Dumfries and Galloway

Locharbriggs North Quarry, Dumfries and Galloway

The Permian red beds of north-east England

Introduction

Crime Rigg Quarry, County Durham

The Permian red beds of west Cumbria

Introduction

Saltom Bay, Cumbria

The Permian red beds of the Vale of Eden

Introduction

Burrells Quarry, Cumbria

Cowraik Quarry, Cumbria

George Gill, Cumbria

Hilton Beck, Cumbria

Stenkrith Beck, Cumbria

River Belah, Cumbria

The Permian red beds of the English Midlands

Introduction

Sling Common, Hereford and Worcester

Osebury Rock, Hereford and Worcester

Kinver Edge, Staffordshire

The Permian red beds of Devon

Shoalstone, Devon

Saltern Cove, Devon

Roundham Head, Devon

Oddicombe Beach, Devon

Coryton's Cove, Devon

Dawlish, Devon

Orcombe Rocks, Devon

3 British Triassic red beds

British Triassic red-bed GCR sites

The Triassic red beds of the Moray Firth Basin, north-east Scotland

Introduction

Burghead, Morayshire

Lossiemouth shore and quarries, Morayshire

The Triassic red beds of the Western Highlands and Islands, and Arran

Introduction

Gruinard Bay, Ross and Cromarty

The Eyre Burn, Island of Raasay, Skye and Lochalsh

Gribun Shore and Crags, Mull, Strathclyde

King's Cave to Drumadoon, Arran, Strathclyde

The Triassic red beds of west Cumbria and the East Irish Sea Basin

Introduction

Fleswick–Saint Bees, Cumbria

Burton Point, The Wirral, Cheshire

Hilbre Island and Hilbre Point, The Wirral, Cheshire

Thurstaston Common, Merseyside

The Dungeon, Merseyside

The Triassic red beds of the Cheshire Basin

Introduction

Dee Cliffs section, Cheshire

Bickerton Hill, Cheshire

Frodsham, Cheshire

Red Brow Cutting, Cheshire

Grinshill Quarries, Shropshire

The Triassic red beds of the western margin of the North Sea Basin

Introduction

Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Styrrup Quarry, Nottinghamshire

Scrooby Top Quarry, Nottinghamshire

Colwick railway section, Nottinghamshire

The Triassic red beds of the Central Midlands

Introduction

Hulme Quarry Cannock Chase, Staffordshire

Brocton Quarry Cannock Chase, Staffordshire

Wollaston Ridge Quarry Staffordshire

Claverley Road Cutting, Shropshire

Burcot, Hereford and Worcester

Shrewley, Warwickshire

The Triassic red beds of South Wales

Introduction

Sutton Flats, Mid Glamorgan

Barry Island, South Glamorgan

Hayes Point to Bendrick Rock, South Glamorgan

Sully Island, South Glamorgan

The Triassic red beds of Devon

Introduction

Budleigh Salterton, Devon

Ladram Bay to Sidmouth, Devon

4 British Penarth Group sites

Introduction

Stratigraphy

Sedimentology

Palaeontology

Penarth Group sites

The Penarth Group of South Wales

Lavernock to Penarth, near Cardiff, South Glamorgan

Stormy Down, near Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan

The Penarth Group of Gloucestershire, Avon and north Somerset

Wainlode Cliff, Gloucestershire

Westbury Garden Cliff, Gloucestershire

Aust Cliff Avon

Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, near Frome, Somerset

Barnhill Quarry Chipping Sodbury, Avon

Wetmoor, near Wickwar, Avon

Lulsgate Quarry, Avon

The Penarth Group of west Somerset

St Audries Bay, near Watchet, Somerset

Blue Anchor Point, Somerset

The Penarth Group of Devon

Culverhole Point, near Axmouth, Devon

Pinhay Bay, Dorset

References

Glossary

Index