Rushton, A.W.A., Owen, A.W., Owens, R.M. & Prigmore, J.K. 2000. British Cambrian to Ordovician Stratigraphy. Geological Conservation Review Series No. 18, JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 1 86107 4727. The original source material for these web pages has been made available by the JNCC under the Open Government Licence 3.0. Full details in the JNCC Open Data Policy
The Brand
The Brand exposes part of the Brand Hills Formation and part of the overlying mud-rich turbidites of the Swithland Formation. The latter formation elsewhere contains the trace fossil Teichichnus (Bland and Goldring, 1995), which is considered indicative of a Cambrian rather than Precambrian age. Mcllroy et al. (1998, fig. 6) indicate a correlation of the Swithland formation with the higher parts of the Hartshill Formation and the lower part of the overlying Purley Shale Formation (see site report for Woodlands Quarry, above).