Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Neetleton Stone

The Nettleton Stone, just over a metre thick in the Hull-Brigg district, and a little less at the formaer exposure at Melton Bottoms [SE 973 273], comprises hard, grey sandy chalk, and equates with Jukes-Browne Bed 7 of southern England (Gaunt et al., 1992). It is immediately underlain by the Nettleton Pycnodonte Marl. The Nettleton Stone marks the upper limit in northern England of the echinoids Echinocorys sphaerica (thick-tested forms) and Holaster subglobosus, and the bivalve Inoceramus atlanticus (Gaunt et al., 1992).

Macrofossil Biozonation: A. jukesbrownei Zone

Correlation: see Correlation with other UK Chalk Group successions

References

GAUNT, G D, FLETCHER, T P & WOOD, C J. 1992. Geology of the country around Kingston-upon-Hull and Brigg. Memoir of the British Geological Survey.

See: Jukes-Browne Bed 7 (southern England), Nettleton Pycnodonte Marl