Residual Deposits Group

Residual Deposits Group
Stratigraphic range: Palaeogene to Cromerian age
Type Group
Unit of Great Britain Superficial Deposits Supergroup
Underlies Quaternary deposits
Thickness 2m to 25m
Lithology
Primary remanié deposits
Location
Country England, Scotland
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 remanié deposit, Clay-with-Flints and in the latter the Buchan Gravels Formation which is up to 25m thick.[1]

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