The Great Scar Limestone Group is a lithostratigraphical term referring to a succession of generally fossiliferous rock strata which occur in the Pennines in northern England and in the Isle of Man within the Tournaisian and Visean stages of the Carboniferous Period.
[1] The sequence in the Stainmore Trough is thus (youngest at top): On the Alston Block corresponding to the North Pennines, the sequence contains the Melmerby Scar Limestone Formation.
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