| Computer Code: |
QURK |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Albian Age (KA)
— Albian Age (KA) |
| Lithological Description: |
Comprises red marly limestone with sporadic seams of pale limestone nodules. The member is divided into two parts by an erosion surface. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Clays with sporadic "potato stones" (the A Beds of the Speeton Clay Formation) are overlain by marly limestones with seams of limestone nodules of the Queens Rock Member. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
The boundary is placed at a change from marly limestone and bands of limestone nodules upwards into strongly rhythmically bedded marls and marly clay with limestones of the Speeton Beck Member. |
| Thickness: |
4.95m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Recognized only on the Yorkshire coast near Speeton. |
| Parent Unit: |
Hunstanton Formation (HUCK)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Foreshore near Crab Rocks, Filey Bay, Yorkshire [TA 1528 7519]. See Mitchell (1995). |
| Reference(s): |
| Mitchell, S F. 1995. Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Hunstanton Formation (Red Chalk, Cretaceous) succession at Speeton, North Yorkshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol.50, 285-303. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
