The Coal Measures Group is a lithostratigraphical term coined to refer to the coal-bearing succession of rock strata which occur in the United Kingdom within the Westphalian Stage of the Carboniferous Period.
It is succeeded (overlain) by the Warwickshire Group which comprises a largely non-productive sequence of red beds.
A similar scheme operates in the Midland Valley Basin of Scotland.
It comprises the: In South Wales, the larger part of what had been the Upper Coal Measures now forms the Pennant Sandstone Formation in the overlying Warwickshire Group.
This article about a specific stratigraphic formation in the United Kingdom is a stub.