Stockdale Group
The Stockdale 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 Stockdale near the top of Longsleddale in Cumbria. It is included within the Windermere Supergroup. The rocks of the Group have also previously been referred to as the Stockdale Shales or Stockdale Subgroup. The group comprises limestones and oolites and some sandstones and shales which reach a maximum thickness of 120m in the area. It is divided into a lower Skelgill Formation which is overlain by an upper Browgill Formation.Stockdale Group
Stratigraphic range: Llandovery epoch of SilurianType Group Unit of Windermere Supergroup Sub-units Skelgill and Browgill formations Underlies Tranearth Group Overlies Dent Group Thickness up to 120m Lithology Primary mudstone, siltstone Location Region Northern England Country England Extent southern Lake District and Pennine inliers Type section Named for Stockdale in Longsleddale