The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Margate Chalk [Obsolete: use MACK]

Computer Code: -385 Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Index Level
Age range: Late Cretaceous Epoch (KU) — Late Cretaceous Epoch (KU)
Lithological Description: [Obsolete: use MACK]
Definition of Lower Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Definition of Upper Boundary: none recorded or not applicable
Thickness: none recorded or not applicable
Geographical Limits: none recorded or not applicable
Parent Unit: none recorded or not applicable
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
none recorded or not applicable
Reference(s):
Whitaker, W. 1865. On the Chalk of the Isle of Thanet. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol.21, 395-398. 
Whitaker, W. 1872. The geology of the London Basin, Part I. The Chalk and the Eocene beds of the southern and western tracts. Memoir of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, Vol. IV. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
none recorded or not applicable