White Limestone
Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)
PERIOD |
GROUP |
FORMATION |
Jurassic |
Great Oolite |
White Limestone |
Lithology
A pale grey to off-white or yellowish limestone, peloidal wackestone and packstone with subordinate ooidal and shell fragmental grainstones, recrystallised limestone and/or hardgrounds at some levels with rare sandy limestone, argillaceous limestone, marl and mudstone or clay.
Upper Boundary
Generally a sharp, erosive boundary, with a cross-bedded shell-fragmental ooidal limestone of the Forest Marble Formation or mudstone of the Forest Marble Formation.
Lower Boundary
The base of the described peloidal wackestone, packstone or grainstone, overlying marls or fine-grained ooidal grainstones of the Hampen Formation or Rutland Formation.
Representative Sites
Daglingworth Quarry
Stoney Furlong Cutting
Information on lithology and boundaries taken from the British Geological Survey Lexicon of Named Rock Units |
