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A Coniacian ammonite from the ‘Top Rock’ in the Chalk of Kent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. S. Gale  and
P. B. Woodroof
A. S. Gale
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, King's College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
P. B. Woodroof
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR and Esso Exploration and Production U.K., 50, Stratton Street, London, WlX 6AU
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Summary

The occurrence of Barroisiceras within the top bed of the Zone of Holaster planus near Dover in Kent provides the first ammonite evidence for the position of the base of the Coniacian in the Chalk of England. Inoceramus cf. rotundatus occurs ½ m above the ‘Top Rock’.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 118 , Issue 5 , September 1981 , pp. 557 - 560
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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