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Gray Sandstone Group

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Type
  
Group

Overlies
  
Coralliferous Group

Primary
  
quartzitic sandstones

Underlies
  
Red Marls Formation

Thickness
  
circa 274 - 609m

Other
  
mudstones

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The Gray Sandstone Group is a late Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in west Wales. The strata are exposed in the coast around the Milford Haven area; outcrops occur either side of Marloes Bay. Besides quartzitic sandstones and mudstones, sandy rottenstones are found at outcrop. Fossils within the rottenstone beds include brachiopods and corals. The rocks of this group have also previously been known as the Gray Sandstone Series.

References

Gray Sandstone Group Wikipedia