The Pennine Coal Measures Group is the coal-bearing sequence of rock strata across the United Kingdom's Carboniferous Westphalian Stage, spanning the Langsettian to Bolsovian ages and underlying coalfields in northern England, the Midlands, Wales and southern Scotland. It is divided into Upper, Middle and Lower Coal Measures formations of mudstone, sandstone and numerous coal seams, with marine bands that geologists use to correlate strata between separate mining districts, and it was for generations a major source of Britain's coal.
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The Pennine Coal Measures Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to the coal-bearing succession of rock strata which occur in the United Kingdom within the Westphalian Stage of the Carboniferous Period
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The sequence mainly consists of mudstones and siltstones together with numerous sandstones, the more significant ones of which are individually named.
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