The Tranearth Group is a Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in the southern Lake District and Howgill Fells of the Pennines of northern England. The name is derived from the locality of Tranearth near Torver in Cumbria. The Group is included within the Windermere Supergroup. It comprises laminated hemipelagites and siltstones and some sandstones and limestone which achieve a thickness of between 500 and 1000m. It is divided into a lower Brathay Formation which is overlain by the Birk Riggs Formation (not present in the Howgills) and then by an upper Coldwell Formation.[1]
^"Tranearth Group". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. British Geological Survey. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
The TranearthGroup is a Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in the southern Lake District and Howgill Fells of the Pennines...
Ordovician to earliest Silurian. The overlying Sheinwoodian to Gorstian TranearthGroup consists mainly of hemipelagite (clays and silts) with some turbiditic...
the Bannisdale Formation of the Kendal Group and underlain by the Wray Castle Formation of the TranearthGroup, it is divided into several formations...
The Stockdale Group is a Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in the southern Lake District and Howgill Fells of the Pennines...
Dent Group of turbiditic limestones, and the overlying series of shales, grits and greywackes of the Stockdale Group, TranearthGroup, Coniston Group and...
are grouped into 'members', members are grouped into 'formations', formations into 'groups' and groups occasionally into 'supergroups'. Some groups are...
the headwaters of Torver Beck, which passes a disused quarry near the Tranearth climbing hut, keeping the workings topped up via an artificial but picturesque...
includes (successively) the rocks of the Dent, Stockdale, Tranearth, Coniston, and Kendal groups. These are generally a little less resistant to erosion...
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