Earth:Fuller's Earth Formation

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Fuller's Earth Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian
TypeFormation
Unit ofGreat Oolite Group
Sub-unitsEyford Member
UnderliesFrome Clay, Chalfield Oolite Formation, Athelstan Oolite Formation, Taynton Limestone Formation or Tresham Rock Formation
OverliesChipping Norton Limestone or Inferior Oolite Group
Thickness5 m to >260 m
Lithology
PrimaryMudstone
OtherLimestone, Sandstone
Location
RegionEngland
CountryUnited 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 such as the pterosaur Dolicorhamphus. It is the lateral equivalent of the Rutland Formation, Sharp's Hill Formation, Calcaire d’Ecouché, and Calcaire de Caen

See also

  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in England

References

  1. "Fuller's Earth Formation". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. British Geological Survey. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=FE. Retrieved 25 July 2015.