Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Beacon Hill Marl
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The Beacon Hill Marl (stratotype: Beacon Hill [TA 025 197] ) is typically up to 20 mm thick (although locally reduced to just a marl wisp) and usually overlies a bed of elliptical grey flints (Wood & Smith, 1978). Macrofossil Biozonation: T. lata Zone
Correlation: see Correlation with other UK Chalk Group successions
References
WOOD C J & SMITH, E G.1978. Lithostratigraphical classification of the Chalk in North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 42(2), 263-287.