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Description: | A specimen of conglomerate sandstone measuring (115mm x 76mm x 62mm). The specimen is coarse grained with angular grains and muscovite mica sheets up to 1mm. The sample is red/brown with red iron oxide and is weathered. The sediments are fairly well consolidated but are friable (crumbly). Within the sand are quartz pebbles from (3mm) up to (41mm x 35mm x 12mm). The clasts are well rounded and fractured. They are flattened and aligned along the longest length of the of the specimen. This specimen was collected from (GR SO 883 847) Bridgnorth Road, Wollaston, Stourbridge, West Midlands. This is Triassic in age and was collected on 23/04/2010. AR/CB
A specimen of conglomerate sandstone from Wollaston and is Triassic in age | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Museums Service | Rights holder: | Dudley Museums Service | Subjects: | Geology | Temporal: | Triassic | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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