Liverpool district - Sheet Explanation for sheet E96
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Sheet Explanations provide a brief description and interpretation of the geology of the relevant BGS 1:50 000 scale map sheet area. More detailed geological information for the same area is available via the Sheet Descriptions.
Sheet Explanations are printed A5 booklets and are available either singly, or as a pack together with the relevant 1:50 000 scale map, where this map is available.
The City of Liverpool, Wirral and part of north Clwyd are included in this district, which is dissected by the estuaries of the Mersey and the Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy). The bedrock geology divides into two domains; the Welsh part underlain by Carboniferous rocks and the English part by Permo-Triassic rocks - the boundary runs approximately along the national border which bisects the Dee estuary. The oldest of the Carboniferous strata are the most erosion-resistant Dinantian limestones of the Clwyd Limestone Group which forms an escarpment in the west. To the east of the Dee, the Permian and Triassic strata which underlie Liverpool and the Wirral consist of aeolian, alluvial and fluvial sandstones and coastal plain mudstones.
Author Howard, A S et al
ISBN 9780852725894
Sheet(s) Covered E096
Year Published 2007
