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Trawden Limestone Group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ28224698 ↗
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The Trawden Limestone Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the succession of limestone rock strata which occur in parts of Lancashire and neighbouring Yorkshire, northern England in the United Kingdom laid down within the Chadian to Brigantian sub-Stages of the Carboniferous Period.

The Trawden Limestone Group is preceded (underlain) by the Roddlesworth Formation. It is succeeded (overlain) by the Bowland Shale Formation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trawden Limestone Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.