Abbey Wood - Geological Guide for the Geology and Stratification

(Collecting on the foreshore)
(Digging into the Blackheath Beds) - 2000

The shell beds of Abbey Wood are extremely fossilferous. The beds are the Lessness Shell Bed from the Blackheath Beds (part of the Palaeogene age). Here, massive pebble beds with disturbed bedding grading into pebbly soil layers, are above Buff Sand, containing scattered shells and pebbles. Below this, an iron pan is present, with white sand beneath. There are patches of sandy, pebble coquina at the site.

Palaeogene	Oligocene	Chattian	23.8 to 28.5
	Oligocene	Rupelian	28.5 to 33.7
	Eocene	Priabonian	33.7 to 35.5
		Bartonian	35.5 to 40.5
		Lutetian	40.5 to 49.5
		Ypresian	49.5 to 54.8
	Paleocene	Thanetian	54.8 to 57.0
		Selandian	57.0 to 60.5
		Danian	60.5 to 65.0

Ypresian 49.5 - 54.8 MYA
FORMATIONS AND DEPOSITS		LOCATIONS
Poole Formation
London Clay	London Clay Basement Bed	Ramsholt Bawdsey Whitecliff Bay
	Division A	Isle of Sheppey Walton-on-the-Naze Ramsholt Maylandsea Nacton Levington Bawdsey Bognor Regis Herne Bay Whitecliff Bay Harwich
	Division B
	Division C
	Division D
Blackheath Beds		Abbey Wood
Harwich Formation		Harwich
Claygate Beds
Oldhaven Beds		Herne Bay
Reading Formation		Herne Bay Whitecliff Bay

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