Gault

The Gault Formation is a geological formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep-water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period. It is well exposed in... Wikipedia

• Type:  Geological formation
• Unit of:  Selborne Group
• Underlies:  Upper Greensand Formation, Cambridge Greensand, Chalk Group
• Overlies:  Monk's Bay Sandstone Formation, Folkestone Formation, Woburn Sands Formation, Carstone Formation, overstepping of Jurassic and Triassic rocks in Southern England
• Thickness:  2 m in Norfolk to 110 m in the Weald
• Primary:  Mudstone, clay
• Other:  Limestone
• Region:  England
• Location:  Copt Point, Folkestone
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo