page_title: Lickey Hills
section_title: Geology
hierarchical_section_title: Lickey Hills / Geology
caption_attribution_description: English: A quarry cutting from the Bilberry Hill quarry on Bilberry Hill, within the Lickey Hills Country Park. The Ordovician age Lickey Quartzite is folded into a recumbent fold with the fold axis running just below the top of the quarry face see here
context_page_description: The Lickey Hills are a range of hills in Worcestershire, England, 11 miles to the south-west of the centre of Birmingham near the villages of Lickey, Cofton Hackett and Barnt Green. The hills are a popular country park area and they afford panoramic views over much of the surrounding countryside.
context_section_description: The Lickey Hills area includes a wide geological range of rocks of various ages. The stratigraphic sequence, which is the basis for the area's diversity of landscape and habitat, comprises:
  Barnt Green rocks - tuffs and volcanic grits, siltstones and mudstones from the Tremadocian stage of the Ordovician
  Lickey Quartzite - an Ordovician quartzite with thin beds of mudstone and possibly tuff
  Rubery sandstone - a fossiliferous sandstone of lower Silurian age (Telychian)
  Halesowen Formation - a Carboniferous mudstone of Westphalian D age
  Clent Formation - a breccia of lower Permian age
  Bunter Pebble Beds - beds of Triassic water-worn pebbles
  The overall structure of the Lickeys Hills is horst of quartzite forming the Lickey Ridge, with the younger sequences downfaulted from it to both east and west.
caption: A quarry cutting on Bilberry Hill showing the layers of Lickey Quartzite
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