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Residual Deposits Group

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Type
  
Thickness
  
2m to 25m

Country
  
Underlies
  
Quaternary deposits

Primary
  
remaniƩ deposits

Extent
  
across Chalk outcrop (southern England), Buchan (northeast Scotland)

The Residual Deposits Group is a Palaeogene to Quaternary lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata or other definable geological units) present in those parts of southern and eastern England where the Chalk outcrops and in the Buchan district of northeast Scotland. In the former they consist of the 2 to 10m thick remaniƩ deposit, Clay-with-Flints and in the latter the Buchan Gravels Formation which is up to 25m thick.

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Residual Deposits Group Wikipedia


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