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Description: | A mudstone concretion within a medium grained well sorted sandstone, measuring (80mm x 72mm x 34mm). This specimen is a medium grained, brown sandstone with a darker mudstone concretion outlining two oval depressions within the sandstone measuring (50mm x 48mm x 5mm). There is some iron oxide staining on the specimen. On the underside a coarser sediment is visible containg rounded quartz grains. Some dried vegetation is cemented to the surface. The specimen was collected from the Gornal; Sandstone which is Downtownian, Upper Silurian in age. AR/CB
A mudstone concretion within a medium grained sandstone which is approximately 420 million years old. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Museums Service | Rights holder: | Dudley Museums Service | Subjects: | Geology | Temporal: | Silurian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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