Mitchell, S.F. and Underwood, Charlie J. (1999) Lithological and faunal stratigraphy of the Aptian and Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Type Speeton Clay, Speeton, N.E. England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 52 (3), pp. 277-296. ISSN 0044-0604.
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Abstract
Study of the Aptian and Albian part of the Speeton Clay Formation at Speeton, North Yorkshire, has produced a detailed stratigraphy and a large collection of stratigraphically constrained fossils, despite the general poor state of exposure. This has allowed the development of a readily applicable bed numbering scheme and detailed faunal range charts. The Barremian-Aptian boundary is marked by the appearance of abundant examples of the ammonite Prodeshayesites and a marked lithological change from black shale to sandy mudstone. Higher parts of the Aptian have yielded abundant faunas, including ammonites of the fissicostatus, forbesi and deshayesi Zones; the base of the forbesi Zone marked by the incoming of Ewaldi Marl facies. Poorly fossiliferous silty shales of the Albian tardefurcata Zone are succeeded by a bed with glauconite and phosphate pebbles, interpreted as marking the base of the mammillatum Superzone. This is overlain by fossiliferous clays of the Lower and part of the Middle Albian. Aptian and Lower Albian successions inland are highly variable, probably due to intra mid-Cretaceous fault movements. The same general stratigraphy as at Speeton, however, may be seen across much of the southern North Sea.
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| Additional Information: | This material has been published in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, vol 52. pp. 277-296 (1999), the only definitive repository of the content that has been certified and accepted after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Yorkshire Geological Society. C. Underwood was at the University of Liverpool when this paper was published. He is currently a Lecturer at Birkbeck. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Cretaceous, Albian, Aptian, Speeton, stratigraphy, ammonite, belemnite, lithostratigraphy |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Charles Underwood |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/107 |
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