Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - South Landing Member

The South Landing Member (stratotype: High Stacks to South Landing Ravine [TA 231 692 to TA 256 699], c. 21 m thick, comprises hard, white, massively bedded chalk with c. 19 thin marl seams (Whitham, 1993; Mitchell, 1994). It is mostly unfossiliferous, except for a horizon (named 'Lamplugh's Fossil Bed') near the top of the member containing the belemnites Actinocamax and Gonioteuthis, the echinoid Hagenowia and the bivalve Inoceramus pachtii? (Whitham, 1993).

Macrofossil Biozonation: upper M. coranguinum Zone (= Upper Hagenowia rostrata Zone of Whitham, 1993)

Correlation: see Correlation with other UK Chalk Group successions

References

MITCHELL, S F. 1994. New data on the biostratigraphy of the Flamborough Chalk Formation (Santonian, Upper Cretaceous) between South Landing and Danes Dyke, North Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 50, 113-118.

WHITHAM, F.1993. The stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Flamborough Chalk Formation north of the Humber, north-east England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 49(3), 235-258.