Fuller's Earth Formation

Fuller's Earth Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian
Type Formation
Unit of Great Oolite Group
Underlies Frome Clay Formation, Chalfield Oolite Formation, Athelstan Oolite Formation, Taynton Limestone Formation or Tresham Rock Formation
Overlies Chipping Norton Limestone Formation or Inferior Oolite Group
Thickness 5 m to >260 m
Location
Region England
Country United Kingdom

The Fullers Earth Formation is a geological formation that outcrops in southern England. It is also mostly present in the subsurface of the Wessex Basin and offshore in the English Channel Basin, Celtic Sea Basin and St George's Channel Basin.[1] It preserves fossils dating back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic series.

See also

References

  1. "Fuller's Earth Formation". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. British Geological Survey. Retrieved 25 July 2015.


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