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Bowland High Group

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Type
  
Extent
  
Craven Basin

Named for
  
Thickness
  
up to 2340m

Region
  
northern England

Primary
  
Limestone

Underlies
  
Unit of
  
Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup

The Bowland High Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the thick succession of limestone rock strata which occur in the Craven Basin of Lancashire and Yorkshire in northern England, United Kingdom from the Courceyan to the Chadian sub-Stage of the Carboniferous Period.

The Bowland High Group is unconformably overlain by the Hodder Mudstone Formation of the Craven Group.

References

Bowland High Group Wikipedia


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