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Summary
Description Gilbert's Pit section.jpg |
English:
Sequence of Paleogene strata exposed at the edge of Gilbert's Pit SSSI in Maryon Park, Greenwich, London
The grey sand making up the lower two-thirds of the old quarry face is the
Thanet Formation
, This is overlain by the yellow-brown weathering sands of the
Upnor Formation
(the lower part of the
Lambeth Group
). The overlying
Woolwich Formation
consists of the distinctive light grey shell bed, followed by dark grey clays. The top of the slope has the distinctive black flint pebbles of the
Harwich Formation
(better known locally as the Blackheath Beds)
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Source | Own work |
Author | Mikenorton |
Camera location | 51° 29′ 16.78″ N, 0° 02′ 35.03″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.487995; 0.043063 |
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