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Hollybush Sandstone

Early Cambrian

PERIOD
GROUP
FORMATION
Cambrian
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Hollybush Sandstone

Lithology
Dark green, flaggy, micaceous sandstone with abundant chlorite and glauconite (Groom, 1902; Worssam and others, 1989).

Upper Boundary
Conformable junction with White-Leaved Oak Shale.

Lower Boundary
Conformable on Malvern Quartzite.

Representative Sites
None known.

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

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