A Llandovery Conglomeratic Limestone in Gullet Quarry, Malvern Hills, and its Conodont Fauna
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 102 (5) , 370-382
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800053644
Abstract
A conglomerate band exposed in Gullet Quarry, at the southern end of the Malvern Hills, contains a layer of shelly limestone in which are embedded large, often angular, boulders of Malyernian rock. The character of the limestone and the form and distribution of included boulders suggest that a near-shore environment of carbonate deposition was continually supplied with clastic material from adjacent sea-stacks. The limestone has yielded a conodont fauna indicative of a Llandovery age earlier than that assigned to the conglomerate by Reading and Poole (1961) on the basis of brachiopod evidence.Keywords
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