Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Triple Tabular Flints

A group of three tabular, or locally semitabular flints, occupying a c. 1.5 m interval of chalk, the lowest of which is the thickest, and the highest flint sometimes being represented by several thin overlapping tabular flints (Wood & Smith, 1978). In conjunction with the underlying Ravendale Flint and overlying North Ormsby Marl and Ludborough Flint it forms a mappable feature that equates with the Brandon Flint Series of East Anglia and the Basal Complex of the North Downs (Gaunt et al., 1992).

Macrofossil Biozonation: S. plana 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.

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.

See: Brandon Flint Series, Basal Complex