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Bromsgrove Sandstone

Early-Mid Triassic (Scythian-Anisian)

PERIOD
GROUP
FORMATION
Triassic
Sherwood Sandstone
Bromsgrove Sandstone

Lithology
Sandstones, red, brown and grey, commonly pebbly or conglomeratic at the bases of beds, interbedded with red and brown siltstones and mudstones.

Upper Boundary
Transitional at base of Mercia Mudstone Group.

Lower Boundary
Disconformable on Bridgnorth Sandstone; taken at base of lowest pebbly bed with chips of unweathered feldspar (Wills, 1976 p.37,99) at outcrop in type area.

Representative Sites
Drury Lane
Quarry Bank
Bromsberrow Heath Pit

Information on lithology and boundaries taken from the British Geological Survey Lexicon of Named Rock Units
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