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Geological Guide to Kilve, Somerset


(View of Kilve) - 2002

Over 40ft of limestone and shale's from the Lower Lias is exposed at Kilve. These contain psiloceras planorbis succeeded by a thick sequence of shale's with a few thin limestone's. Above this are some 60ft of shale's in which limestone's become more numerous and more massive upwards from the bucklandi zone. The lias dip eastwards. The Lias themselves are part of the Kilve Shales (approximatly 17m in thickness), blue lias and Quantock's beds which continue to Quantoxhead. Within these dark shales, occasional limestones appear containing coroniceras.


(The Lower Lias, Shale and Limestone layers can clearly be seen) - 2002


(Hard Limestone platforms on the foreshore) - 2002

Jurassic
Late
Volgian Portlandian   142 to 147
Tithonian
147 to 150
Kimmeridgian
Late 150 to 154
Early
Oxfordian
Corallian 154 to 159.4
Late Oxford Clay
Middle
Callovian Middle Oxford Clay 159 to 165
Early Oxford Clay
Kellaways
Late Cornbrash
Bathonian Early Cornbrash 165 to 170
Forest Marble
Frome Formation
Wattonensis Beds
Fullers Earth
Zigzag Beds
Bajocian Late Inferior Oolite 170 to 177
Middle Inferior Oolite
Aalenian Early Inferior Oolite 177 to 180.1
Scissum Beds
Bridport Sands
Early
Toarcian (Late Lias) 180 to 190
Pliensbachian (Middle and Early Lias) 190 to 195
Sinemurian (Early Lias) 195 to 201
Hettangian (Early Lias) 201 to 205.7

Sinemurian
195 - 201 MYA
FORMATIONS AND DEPOSITS
LOCATIONS
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Middle Redcar Mudstone Formation Siliceous Shales
Late Calcareous Shales
Black Ven Marls Charmouth
Lyme Regis
Shales with Beef Charmouth
Lyme Regis
Late Blue Lias Charmouth
Lyme Regis
Kilve
Quantoxhead
Chippel Bay

Hettangian
201 to 205.7 MYA
FORMATIONS AND DEPOSITS
LOCATIONS
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Early Blue Lias Watchet
Lilstock
Hinkley Point
Kilve
Quantoxhead
Chippel Bay
Redcar Mudstone Formation Early Calcareous Shales  
Dunrobin Bay Formation Lady's Walk Shale Golspie
White Sandstone Golspie
Carbonaceous Siltstone Golspie

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