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Exeter Group
| Exeter Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
 Cross-bedded sandstone of the Dawlish Sandstone Formation, near Dawlish | |
| Type | Group |
| Unit of | New Red Sandstone Supergroup |
| Underlies | Aylesbeare Mudstone Group |
| Overlies | Holsworthy Group |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | breccia |
| Other | sandstone |
| Location | |
| Region | southwest England |
| Country | England |
| Extent | east Devon |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Exeter |
The Exeter Group is a Permian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) which occurs through East Devon in southwest England. The name is derived from the city of Exeter in Devon which is partly underlain by rocks of this age.[1]
- ^ http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=EXE (BGS on-line lexicon of rock units)
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