Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - De La Pole Flint

This is a flat-topped, continuous, tabular flint, c. 0.14 m thick, and markedly carious in the upper half (Gaunt et al., 1992). The relative abundance of Volviceramus below the De La Pole Flint in contrast with its apparent absence above this marker suggests that it, rather than the Eppleworth Flint, might be the correlative of the Seven Sisters Flint of Sussex and East Cliff Semitabular Flint of the North Downs Chalk Group succession (Gaunt et al., 1992).

Macrofossil Biozonation: lower M. coranguinum Zone (= Lower Hagenowia rostrata Zone of Whitham, 1991)

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: East Cliff Semitabular Flint, Seven Sisters Flint