The geology of Lincolnshire in eastern England largely consists of an easterly dipping succession of Mesozoic age sedimentary rocks, obscured across large parts of the county by unconsolidated deposits dating from the last few hundred thousand years of the present Quaternary Period. Se mer This article describes the geology of the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire. Besides the modern administrative county, it includes the unitary authority areas of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Se mer The Cretaceous sequence begins with the Wealden Group limestones, mudstones, sandstones and siltstones which occur from Se mer A wide range of superficial deposits have been laid down across the county in the last couple of million years. Lincolnshire was over-ridden by glacial ice on at least one occasion, that of the Se mer The oldest rocks exposed at or near the surface of Lincolnshire are the sandstones and mudstones of the early Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group. Rocks from this and the overlying Se mer A range of rocks from the Jurassic Period occur within a broadly north-south outcrop which tapers markedly northwards from the Fens to the banks of the Humber around Whitton Se mer • Geology of the United Kingdom • Geology of England Se mer • British Geological Survey 1:50,000 scale geological map series sheets (England and Wales) 80 - 81, 88 - 91, 102 -104, 114 -116 & 126 -129, 143 - 145, 157 & 158 and accompanying … Se mer NettetThe West Firsby Oilfield exemplifies the classic east Midlands oil play, sourced by early Namurian pro-deltaic shales. Stacked fluvio-deltaic sandstone reservoirs of latest Namurian to early Westphalian 'A' age are structured into a Variscan inversion anticline in the hanging wall of the northeastern boundary fault of the Dinantian-Namurian …
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NettetRecord details Lincoln. BGS maps portal OpenGeoscience Our data British Geological Survey (BGS) Home Data Information hub Scanned records Maps Portal … NettetUpper Lincolnshire Limestone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use ULL] ... Geology of the Grantham district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, sheet 127 (England and Wales). Hollingworth, S E and Taylor, J H, 1951. The Northampton Sand Ironstone, Stratigraphy, Structure and Reserves. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. jena-auerstedt
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NettetAquifers and shales British Geological Survey (BGS): An overview, at the national scale, of the spatial relationships between principal aquifers and some of the major shale and … NettetTHE GEOLOGY OF LINCOLNSHIRE SECOND EDITION LINCOLNSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY BROCHURE No. 7 THE GEOLOGY OF LINCOLNSHIRE From the Humber … NettetLincolnshire can boast a wide range of soils. Much of East Anglia is underlain by geologically youthful peat, silt and clay soils, derived from previous marine inundations … lake awoonga adventure race