Chalk Group Lithostratigraphy: Northern England - Upper Pink Band

An interval of hard, massive chalk with thin marl partings, locally pink-stained due to secondary geochemical changes, but cream-coloured at localities where staining is undeveloped (Gaunt et al., 1992). The low diversity fauna typically includes the inoceramid bivalve Inoceramus pictus, and thin-tested echinoids such as Camerogalerus cylindricus, Echinocorys sphaerica and Holaster trecensis (Gaunt et al., 1992).

Macrofossil Biozonation: C. guerangeri 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.