Maplewell Group

Maplewell Group
Stratigraphic range: Ediacaran
Rocks of the Beacon Hill Formation outcropping at Beacon Hill, Leicestershire
Type	Group
Sub-units	Hanging Rocks, Bradgate, Beacon Hill and Charnwood Lodge Volcanic formations and the Whitwick and Bardon Hill volcanic complexes
Underlies	Brand Group
Overlies	Blackbrook Group
Lithology
Primary	volcaniclastic sandstone
Other	mudstone, breccia, siltstone, tuff, dacite, andesite
Location
Country	England
Extent	Leicestershire

The Maplewell Group is an Ediacaran lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) present in Leicestershire in the English Midlands. The strata are exposed in Charnwood Forest, west of Leicester. Besides a variety of volcaniclastic sandstones and mudstones, there are various breccias and tuffs. The tuffs which were laid down in water are fossiliferous; Charnia, Charniodiscus and Cyclomedusa, are all recorded from these rocks.