Pennine Coal Measures Group

Pennine Coal Measures Group Stratigraphic range: Langsettian-Westphalian
Type	Group
Unit of	Coal Measures Supergroup
Underlies	Warwickshire Group etc
Thickness	up to 1600m
Lithology
Primary	mudstone, sandstone
Other	siltstone, coal, seatearth
Location
Region	northern England, English Midlands, north Wales
Extent	across northern England, English Midlands, north Wales
Type section
Named for	Pennine Hills

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. In formal use, the term replaces the Coal Measures Group as applied to the succession of coal-bearing strata within the Pennine Basin which includes all of the coalfields of northern England and the English Midlands. It includes the largely concealed Canonbie Coalfield of southern Scotland and the coalfields of northeast Wales and the minor Anglesey coalfield.

The term 'Productive Coal Measures was formerly used for this succession. The Group comprises the:

The Pennine Coal Measures Group is preceded (underlain) by the Millstone Grit Group which is of Namurian age. It is succeeded (overlain) by the Warwickshire Group which comprises a largely non-productive sequence of red beds.

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