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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Contents
Acknowledgements
Access to the countryside
Preface N.V Ellis
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
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
The Permian red beds of the Vale of Eden
Introduction
The Permian red beds of the English Midlands
Introduction
Sling Common, Hereford and Worcester
Osebury Rock, Hereford and Worcester
British Triassic red-bed GCR sites
The Triassic red beds of the Moray Firth Basin, north-east Scotland
Introduction
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 Triassic red beds of the Cheshire Basin
Introduction
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
The Triassic red beds of South Wales
Introduction
Hayes Point to Bendrick Rock, South Glamorgan
The Triassic red beds of Devon
Introduction
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
Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, near Frome, Somerset
Barnhill Quarry Chipping Sodbury, Avon
The Penarth Group of west Somerset
St Audries Bay, near Watchet, Somerset
Culverhole Point, near Axmouth, Devon
Index