Broad Vein Mudstone Formation
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The Broad Vein Mudstone Formation (commonly known as the Broad Vein, historically known as the Red Vein[1] and in Welsh as Y Faen Goch) is an Ordovician lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in Mid Wales. The rock of the formation is silty mudstone, intensely bioturbated in places. It varies in colour from a pale to a medium blue. This formation has been commercially quarried as slate in several locations along its length. The formation is between 400 metres (1,300 ft) and 560 metres (1,840 ft) thick and runs from Dinas Mawddwy south-west to Cardigan Bay at Tywyn.[2]
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Broad Vein Mudstone Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Hirnantian Age | |
Type | Group |
Unit of | Abercorris Group |
Underlies | Narrow Vein Mudstone Formation |
Overlies | Nod Glas Formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Mudstone |
Other | Slate |
Location | |
Coordinates | 52°39′48″N 3°50′43″W |
Region | Mid Wales |
Country | Wales |
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