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BUILDING_STONE_ID | STONE_NAME | PARENT BUILDING STONE  ID | ALTERNATIVE_NAMES | [NAME] | COLOUR | COLOUR_VARIATION | WEATHERED COLOUR | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY | CHRONOSTRAT | STONE_LITHOLOGY | GRAIN_SIZE | [NAME] | KEY_IDENTIFICATION_FEATURES | FAILURE_WEATHERING | CONTEXT_OF_USE | LOCALITY_OF_USE | DATE_COMPILED | COMPILED_BY | MINERAL PLANNING AREA | English Heritage Atlas Area | SOURCE_OF_INFO | retrieval_date
2102 | Cleveland Dyke Rock | 2101 | [NAME] | A tholeiitic dolerite dyke (Cleveland Dyke), varying in width from 6 to 25m, but often seen in the field as near vertical, wall-like intrusion with highly irregular upper surface. |  | Uniform | Dark, nearly blackish | ARMATHWAITE-CLEVELAND DYKE | PALAEOGENE | BASALT AND BASALTIC ANDESITE | Fine Grained | Tendency to break with a conchoidal fracture. | Dark, bluish-grey to nearly black, basaltic rock, typically finely-crystalline. Contains evenly scattered small glassy, lath-shaped crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Other minerals, such as pyrite, calcite, quartz or pectolite are rarely encountered. | Hard and resistant, but rarely used as a building stone. | Rarely used as a building stone, but the 'Whinstone' from the Cleveland Dyke was mainly quarried and used for road-metal and small paving setts both locally and further afield. | Only occurs in far SW corner of area, south of Stainton, and extends in a WNW-ESE trending line, close to (and over) the [NAME] border ([NAME]). The Cleveland Dyke is only intermittently exposed at the surface, often being concealed beneath glacial drift or other sediments. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Middlesbrough Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | Barlow, 1888; BGS, 1987; Stone et al., 2010 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2103 | Cleveland Dyke Rock | 2101 | [NAME] | A tholeiitic dolerite dyke (Cleveland Dyke), varying in width from 6 to 25m, but often seen in the field as near vertical, wall-like intrusion with highly irregular upper surface. |  | Uniform | Dark, nearly blackish | ARMATHWAITE-CLEVELAND DYKE | PALAEOGENE | BASALT AND BASALTIC ANDESITE | Fine Grained | Tendency to break with a conchoidal fracture. | Dark, bluish-grey to nearly black, basaltic rock, typically finely-crystalline. Contains evenly scattered small glassy, lath-shaped crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Other minerals, such as pyrite, calcite, quartz or pectolite are rarely encountered. | Hard and resistant, but rarely used as a building stone. | Rarely used as a building stone, but the 'Whinstone' from the Cleveland Dyke was mainly quarried and used for road-metal and small paving setts both locally and further afield. | Only occurs in far SW corner of area, south of Stainton, and extends in a WNW-ESE trending line, close to (and over) the [NAME] border ([NAME]). The Cleveland Dyke is only intermittently exposed at the surface, often being concealed beneath glacial drift or other sediments. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | Barlow, 1888; BGS, 1987; Stone et al., 2010 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2104 | Cleveland Dyke Rock | 2101 | [NAME] | A tholeiitic dolerite dyke (Cleveland Dyke), varying in width from 6 to 25m, but often seen in the field as near vertical, wall-like intrusion with highly irregular upper surface. |  | Uniform | Dark, nearly blackish | ARMATHWAITE-CLEVELAND DYKE | PALAEOGENE | BASALT AND BASALTIC ANDESITE | Fine Grained | Tendency to break with a conchoidal fracture. | Dark, bluish-grey to nearly black, basaltic rock, typically finely-crystalline. Contains evenly scattered small glassy, lath-shaped crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Other minerals, such as pyrite, calcite, quartz or pectolite are rarely encountered. | Hard and resistant, but rarely used as a building stone. | Rarely used as a building stone, but the 'Whinstone' from the Cleveland Dyke was mainly quarried and used for road-metal and small paving setts both locally and further afield. | Only occurs in far SW corner of area, south of Stainton, and extends in a WNW-ESE trending line, close to (and over) the [NAME] border ([NAME]). The Cleveland Dyke is only intermittently exposed at the surface, often being concealed beneath glacial drift or other sediments. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | Barlow, 1888; BGS, 1987; Stone et al., 2010 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2106 | Whinstone | 2101 | Cleveland Dyke Rock | A tholeiitic dolerite dyke (Cleveland Dyke), varying in width from 6 to 25m, but often seen in the field as near vertical, wall-like intrusion with highly irregular upper surface. |  | Uniform | Dark, nearly blackish | ARMATHWAITE-CLEVELAND DYKE | PALAEOGENE | BASALT AND BASALTIC ANDESITE | Fine Grained | Tendency to break with a conchoidal fracture. | Dark, bluish-grey to nearly black, basaltic rock, typically finely-crystalline. Contains evenly scattered small glassy, lath-shaped crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Other minerals, such as pyrite, calcite, quartz or pectolite are rarely encountered. | Hard and resistant, but rarely used as a building stone. | Rarely used as a building stone, but the 'Whinstone' from the Cleveland Dyke was mainly quarried and used for road-metal and small paving setts both locally and further afield. | Only occurs in far SW corner of area, south of Stainton, and extends in a WNW-ESE trending line, close to (and over) the [NAME] border ([NAME]). The Cleveland Dyke is only intermittently exposed at the surface, often being concealed beneath glacial drift or other sediments. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | Barlow, 1888; BGS, 1987; Stone et al., 2010 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2107 | Whinstone | 2101 | Cleveland Dyke Rock | A tholeiitic dolerite dyke (Cleveland Dyke), varying in width from 6 to 25m, but often seen in the field as near vertical, wall-like intrusion with highly irregular upper surface. |  | Uniform | Dark, nearly blackish | ARMATHWAITE-CLEVELAND DYKE | PALAEOGENE | BASALT AND BASALTIC ANDESITE | Fine Grained | Tendency to break with a conchoidal fracture. | Dark, bluish-grey to nearly black, basaltic rock, typically finely-crystalline. Contains evenly scattered small glassy, lath-shaped crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Other minerals, such as pyrite, calcite, quartz or pectolite are rarely encountered. | Hard and resistant, but rarely used as a building stone. | Rarely used as a building stone, but the 'Whinstone' from the Cleveland Dyke was mainly quarried and used for road-metal and small paving setts both locally and further afield. | Only occurs in far SW corner of area, south of Stainton, and extends in a WNW-ESE trending line, close to (and over) the [NAME] border ([NAME]). The Cleveland Dyke is only intermittently exposed at the surface, often being concealed beneath glacial drift or other sediments. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Middlesbrough Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | Barlow, 1888; BGS, 1987; Stone et al., 2010 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2108 | Whinstone | 2101 | Cleveland Dyke Rock | A tholeiitic dolerite dyke (Cleveland Dyke), varying in width from 6 to 25m, but often seen in the field as near vertical, wall-like intrusion with highly irregular upper surface. |  | Uniform | Dark, nearly blackish | ARMATHWAITE-CLEVELAND DYKE | PALAEOGENE | BASALT AND BASALTIC ANDESITE | Fine Grained | Tendency to break with a conchoidal fracture. | Dark, bluish-grey to nearly black, basaltic rock, typically finely-crystalline. Contains evenly scattered small glassy, lath-shaped crystals of plagioclase feldspar. Other minerals, such as pyrite, calcite, quartz or pectolite are rarely encountered. | Hard and resistant, but rarely used as a building stone. | Rarely used as a building stone, but the 'Whinstone' from the Cleveland Dyke was mainly quarried and used for road-metal and small paving setts both locally and further afield. | Only occurs in far SW corner of area, south of Stainton, and extends in a WNW-ESE trending line, close to (and over) the [NAME] border ([NAME]). The Cleveland Dyke is only intermittently exposed at the surface, often being concealed beneath glacial drift or other sediments. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | Barlow, 1888; BGS, 1987; Stone et al., 2010 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2110 | Upper Magnesian Limestone | 2109 |  | Cream, oolitic dolostone with subordinate thin beds of fine-grained dolomite. [NAME] also present |  |  |  | [NAME] | PERMIAN | DOLOSTONE |  |  |  |  |  | Cleveland | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Hartlepool Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | Sources Spreadsheet, BGS LEXICON | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2111 | Scalby Sandstone | 1 | Upper Estuarine Sandstone | The highest non-marine unit within the Cleveland Jurassic sequence, the Scalby Formation is up to 60m thick. Plant fragments and rootlets are common throughout the formation, fossil wood casts occur in lower part. | GREY | Uniform | Pale to dark grey, yellowish | [NAME] | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Trough-cross bedding and low-angle cross-stratification common (often on a massive scale in lower parts), low-angle cross-stratification and planar bedding typical of orthoquartzitic facies. Upper sandstone units of formation are typically planar-bedded. | Lower parts of this formation are dominated by [NAME] to grey, medium to coarse-grained, sporadically pebbly, trough cross-bedded sandstones, with lenses and more extensive units of pale, highly siliceous orthoquartzitic sandstones. Thin siltstone and mudstone beds also occur.  The upper parts of the formation comprise laminated grey mudstones and siltstones with yellowish grey, fine- to medium-grained sandstones. Sporadic thin coals and grey mudstone seatearths also present at some intervals. | The orthoquartzitic sandstones tend to be homogeneous and relatively hard compared to other lithologies. | Regular local use as general building stone, varied use from rubblestone to rougly dressed; more homogeneous units treated as a freestone and dressed as ashlar. The lower orthoquartzitic sandstones were formerly widely quarried as a valued building stone over moorland and coastal areas. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Fisher & Hancock, 1985; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2112 | Moor Grit | 2111 | Scalby Sandstone | The highest non-marine unit within the Cleveland Jurassic sequence, the Scalby Formation is up to 60m thick. Plant fragments and rootlets are common throughout the formation, fossil wood casts occur in lower part. | GREY | Uniform | Pale to dark grey, yellowish | MOOR GRIT MEMBER | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Trough-cross bedding and low-angle cross-stratification common (often on a massive scale in lower parts), low-angle cross-stratification and planar bedding typical of orthoquartzitic facies. Upper sandstone units of formation are typically planar-bedded. | Lower parts of this formation are dominated by [NAME] to grey, medium to coarse-grained, sporadically pebbly, trough cross-bedded sandstones, with lenses and more extensive units of pale, highly siliceous orthoquartzitic sandstones. Thin siltstone and mudstone beds also occur.  The upper parts of the formation comprise laminated grey mudstones and siltstones with yellowish grey, fine- to medium-grained sandstones. Sporadic thin coals and grey mudstone seatearths also present at some intervals. | The orthoquartzitic sandstones tend to be homogeneous and relatively hard compared to other lithologies. | Regular local use as general building stone, varied use from rubblestone to rougly dressed; more homogeneous units treated as a freestone and dressed as ashlar. The lower orthoquartzitic sandstones were formerly widely quarried as a valued building stone over moorland and coastal areas. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Fisher & Hancock, 1985; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2113 | [NAME] | 1 | Lower and Middle Estuarine Sandstone | Up to 135m thick | GREY | Uniform | Yellowish, yellowish-grey, pale to dark grey | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE, FINE-GRAINED | Fine grained | Cross-stratification is present in the sandstone units; finer-grained lithologies often exhibit planar lamination. | Fine to medium-grained, yellowish grey sandstones with grey mudstones, siltstones and rare thin coals. Plant remains and rootlets are common throughout the strata. Ferruginous sandstones, mudstones and ooidal limestones with a marine macrofossil and trace fossil assemblage also occur. | As a general rule sandstones from this formation are not suitable for higher structures or for bearing great pressure, as they contain fairly high percentages of decomposed feldspathic minerals. | The thicker sandstones ('freestones') are much used as a local building stone, either as a rubblestone or roughly squared and dressed. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2114 | [NAME] | 1 | Middle Estuarine Sandstone | The Cloughton Formation is up to 85m thick, and represents a 'coal measure facies' (with similar lithologies to the underlying [NAME]); it also cut by channel sandstones. Old bell pits dug into the Cloughton Formation occur scattered across the moors, and were mainly excavated for coal. | GREY | Uniform | Pale to dark grey, yellowish, ferruginous | CLOUGHTON FORMATION | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE, FINE-GRAINED | Fine grained | Cross-stratification is present in the sandstone units; finer-grained lithologies often exhibit planar lamination. | The lower and upper parts of this formation (Sycarham and Gristhorpe members are dominated by fine to medium-grained, yellowish grey sandstones with grey mudstones, siltstones and rare thin coals. Plant remains and rootlets are common throughout the strata. Ferruginous sandstones, mudstones and ooidal limestones with a marine macrofossil and trace fossil assemblage, occur in the middle part of the formation. One distinctive sandstone bed (the 'Millepore Bed') is a subarkosic sandstone with a sharp, erosive base, and exhibits planar bedding or strong planar cross-bedding. | As a general rule sandstones from this formation are not suitable for higher structures or for bearing great pressure, as they contain fairly high percentages of decomposed feldspathic minerals. | The thicker sandstones ('freestones') are much used as a local building stone, either as a rubblestone or roughly squared and dressed. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2115 | Middle Estuarine Sandstone | 2114 | [NAME] | The Cloughton Formation is up to 85m thick, and represents a 'coal measure facies' (with similar lithologies to the underlying [NAME]); it also cut by channel sandstones. Old bell pits dug into the Cloughton Formation occur scattered across the moors, and were mainly excavated for coal. | GREY | Uniform | Pale to dark grey, yellowish, ferruginous | CLOUGHTON FORMATION | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE, FINE-GRAINED | Fine grained | Cross-stratification is present in the sandstone units; finer-grained lithologies often exhibit planar lamination. | The lower and upper parts of this formation (Sycarham and Gristhorpe members are dominated by fine to medium-grained, yellowish grey sandstones with grey mudstones, siltstones and rare thin coals. Plant remains and rootlets are common throughout the strata. Ferruginous sandstones, mudstones and ooidal limestones with a marine macrofossil and trace fossil assemblage, occur in the middle part of the formation. One distinctive sandstone bed (the 'Millepore Bed') is a subarkosic sandstone with a sharp, erosive base, and exhibits planar bedding or strong planar cross-bedding. | As a general rule sandstones from this formation are not suitable for higher structures or for bearing great pressure, as they contain fairly high percentages of decomposed feldspathic minerals. | The thicker sandstones ('freestones') are much used as a local building stone, either as a rubblestone or roughly squared and dressed. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2116 | [NAME] | 1 | Lower Estuarine Sandstone | The lowest non-marine unit within the Cleveland Jurassic sequence, the Saltwick Formation is c50m thick. Fossil plant remains and rootlets are common in some beds, especially in the channel-fill finer grained sandstones and siltstones. | YELLOW | Uniform | Yellowish, yellowish-grey, pale to dark grey | SALTWICK FORMATION | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE, FINE-GRAINED | Medium grained | Sandstones commonly exhibit sharply erosional bases, and channel-fill bedforms which cut down through underlying strata (the Dogger) into Lias mudstones. | Rhythmic, grading-up sequences of yellow, fine to coarse-grained sandstones, with yellow-grey siltstones and grey mudstones (representing fluvial, fluvio-deltaic and paralic lithofacies). Locally, thin low-grade coal seams, carbonaceous/seatearth mudstone and nodular sideritic ironstone beds may be present. | As a general rule sandstones from this formation are not suitable for higher structures or for bearing great pressure, as they contain fairly high percentages of decomposed feldspathic minerals. | The thicker sandstones ('freestones') are much used as a local building stone, either as a rubblestone or roughly squared and dressed. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2117 | Lower Estuarine Sandstone | 2116 | [NAME] | The lowest non-marine unit within the Cleveland Jurassic sequence, the Saltwick Formation is c50m thick. Fossil plant remains and rootlets are common in some beds, especially in the channel-fill finer grained sandstones and siltstones. | YELLOW | Uniform | Yellowish, yellowish-grey, pale to dark grey | SALTWICK FORMATION | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE, FINE-GRAINED | Medium grained | Sandstones commonly exhibit sharply erosional bases, and channel-fill bedforms which cut down through underlying strata (the Dogger) into Lias mudstones. | Rhythmic, grading-up sequences of yellow, fine to coarse-grained sandstones, with yellow-grey siltstones and grey mudstones (representing fluvial, fluvio-deltaic and paralic lithofacies). Locally, thin low-grade coal seams, carbonaceous/seatearth mudstone and nodular sideritic ironstone beds may be present. | As a general rule sandstones from this formation are not suitable for higher structures or for bearing great pressure, as they contain fairly high percentages of decomposed feldspathic minerals. | The thicker sandstones ('freestones') are much used as a local building stone, either as a rubblestone or roughly squared and dressed. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-01-18 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2118 | Dogger Sandstone | 1 | Dogger | Thickness of formation variable, from 2-12m, but may be absent due to penecontemporaneous erosion prior to deposition of overlying [NAME]. The Dogger Formation yields marine fossils including bivalves and scattered ammonites; corals, bryozoans, crinoids and brachiopods are locally present in the more calcareous facies. | GREY | Banded | Yellowish, yellowish-grey, pale to dark grey, yellowish-brown, ochreous | [NAME] | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE, MEDIUM-GRAINED | Medium grained | Generally highly bioturbated, locally cross-bedded. | Highly variable formation with substantial lateral interdigitation and lithofacies changes. In the Whitby area and coastal sections to the southeast, the formation consists mainly of medium-grained, grey, weathering yellow-brown, ferruginous sideritic sandstones. In central, north and west Cleveland there is a complex interdigitation between grey, weathering yellow-brown, chamosite ooidal ironstone (with siderite mudstone matrix and ferruginous sideritic sandstones). [NAME], medium-grained sandy limestones, (mainly bioclastic wackestones and packstones with peloids and ooids) and partings, lenses and beds of grey, fossiliferous fissile mudstone are also present. | Iron-rich sandstones often weather with a yellow-brown, ochre crust. | Used occasionally as a local building stone, typically roughly dressed into squared blocks. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2119 | Dogger | 2118 | Dogger Sandstone | Thickness of formation variable, from 2-12m, but may be absent due to penecontemporaneous erosion prior to deposition of overlying [NAME]. The Dogger Formation yields marine fossils including bivalves and scattered ammonites; corals, bryozoans, crinoids and brachiopods are locally present in the more calcareous facies. | GREY | Banded | Yellowish, yellowish-grey, pale to dark grey, yellowish-brown, ochreous | [NAME] | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE AND IRONSTONE | Medium grained | Generally highly bioturbated, locally cross-bedded. | Highly variable formation with substantial lateral interdigitation and lithofacies changes. In the Whitby area and coastal sections to the southeast, the formation consists mainly of medium-grained, grey, weathering yellow-brown, ferruginous sideritic sandstones. In central, north and west Cleveland there is a complex interdigitation between grey, weathering yellow-brown, chamosite ooidal ironstone (with siderite mudstone matrix and ferruginous sideritic sandstones). [NAME], medium-grained sandy limestones, (mainly bioclastic wackestones and packstones with peloids and ooids) and partings, lenses and beds of grey, fossiliferous fissile mudstone are also present. | Iron-rich sandstones often weather with a yellow-brown, ochre crust. | Used occasionally as a local building stone, typically roughly dressed into squared blocks. | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31
2120 | Staithes Sandstone | 1 |  | Formation approximately 25m thick. Typically contains a rich fossil marine fauna, especially bivalves, especially oysters and pectinids. | YELLOW | Uniform | Yellowish, yellowish-grey, ferruginous | STAITHES SANDSTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC | SANDSTONE | Fine grained | Typically intensely bioturbated and showing varied bedding structures. | Ferruginous, fine-grained, yellowish-grey sandstones interbedded with softer silty, argillaceous sandstones and siltstones. Some individual sandstone beds are more calcareous and up to 30cm thick. | Relatively soft compared to other sandstone units, but some calcareous sandstones stronger cemented and more resistant. | Less argillaceous sandstone units are roughly dressed and occasionally used as a local building stone, especially in the area in and around Staithes (often in association with [NAME]). | Extends as part of the Jurassic belt of strata extending from [NAME] (SE of Middlesborough) trending roughly E-W through central Redcar & Cleveland UA area, north of Skelton and south of Saltburn-by-the-Sea; also extends as a NE-SW trending belt of strata from near Guisborough towards the SW corner of the UA area. | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council | Cleveland English Heritage Atlas Area | BGS, 1987; BGS, 1998; Rawson & Wright, 1995 | 2012-05-16 10:20:31