White Limestone Formation
Appearance
White Limestone Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Great Oolite Group |
Underlies | Forest Marble Formation |
Overlies | Hampen Formation, Rutland Formation |
Thickness | Up to 30 m |
Lithology | |
Primary | Limestone |
Other | Mudstone Clay Marl |
Location | |
Region | England |
Country | ![]() |
Extent | Gloucestershire |
Type section | |
Location | Shipton-on-Cherwell Quarry |
Thickness at type section | Approximately 20 m |
The White Limestone Formation is a Bathonian geologic formation in the United Kingdom, dating to the Middle Jurassic, 168.3 to 166.1 millions years ago.[1] Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[2] It is the lateral equivalent of the Blisworth Limestone
See also
Footnotes
- ^ "The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details White Limestone Formation". British Geological Survey. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.