Brief Summary of British Stratigraphy
These pages contain a brief summary of the main details of British stratigraphy, detailing the chronostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, and lithostratigraphic details. On each page sources are identified where these details can be elaborated and expanded. This is a resource for students, academics and organisations, who may be new to British Geology. Some knowledge of earth sciences is assumed in the descriptions.- Quaternary
- Neogene and Palaeogene
- British Tertiary Igneous Province
- Upper Cretaceous
- Lower Cretaceous
- Middle and Upper Jurassic
- Lower Jurassic
- Triassic
- Permian
- Upper Carboniferous
- Lower Carboniferous
- Devonian
- Silurian
- Cambrian and Ordovician
- English and Welsh Neoproterozoic: Avalon Terranes
- Scottish and Irish Neoproterozoic: Dalradian
- Archean to Neoproterozoic: Lewisian, Torridonian and Moine
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