Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Kiplingcotes Flints

These are three conspicuous semitabular flints, c. 0.15 m thick, the lowest of which is lenticular, the middle one distinctly carious, and the highest characterised by downward projections (Wood & Smith, 1978; Gaunt et al., 1992).

Macrofossil Biozonation: M. cortestudinarium 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.