Type Group Thickness up to 1055m Primary Limestone Underlies Bowland Shale Formation | Overlies Roddlesworth Formation Region northern England Named for Trawden | |
Unit of Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup Other mudstone, chert, dolostone | ||
The Trawden Limestone Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the succession of limestone rock strata which occur in parts of Lancashire and neighbouring Yorkshire, northern England in the United Kingdom laid down within the Chadian to Brigantian sub-Stages of the Carboniferous Period.
The Trawden Limestone Group is preceded (underlain) by the Roddlesworth Formation. It is succeeded (overlain) by the Bowland Shale Formation
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