Studland Bay - Geological Guide for the Geology and Stratification

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Cretaceous

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Seas flood half the land, Great thickness of chalk, single-celled animals laid down. Land masses begin to move towards their present positions. Climate mild without
extremes.

TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Advanced dinosaurs such as duck-bills. Turtles, snakes,salamanders. Gulls and wading birds. Opossums & other mammals. All dinosaurs and many other large reptiles extinct by the end of the period.

PLANT LIFE: Gymnosperms, sequoias and cypresses. Flowering plants appear, magnolias and oaks.

SEA LIFE: Plankton, coral reefs, rudists, ammonites, calcareous algae. Marine reptiles and ammonites extinct by the end of the period.

Pleistocene

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Ice ages cover Northern lands, sea level falls

TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Woolly mammoths and rhinos, saber toothed cats. cave lions. Giant marsupials in Australia. Human hunting skills develop, many large mammals disappear.

PLANT LIFE: Grasslands

SEA LIFE: Whales

Geological Guide to Studland Bay

At the southern end of the bay, the upper chalk is exposed. This is of the Mucronata Zone from the Campanian stage. Above the chalk is the Reading Formation from the Eocene period, this is mostly pale grey sands.

The Northern end of the bay begins with the London Clay Formation, although this is poorly exposed and overgrown. The Redend Sandstone from the Poole Formation is well exposed up to Redend Point.

At Redend Point, the Pipe Clay Series yields plant remains. This is also part o the Poole Formation of Eocene age.

Ypresian 49.5 - 54.8 MYA
Bournemouth Group	Poole Formation	Studland Bay
London Clay	London Clay Basement Bed	Ramsholt Bawdsey Whitecliff Bay
	Division A-D	Isle of Sheppey Walton-on-the-Naze Ramsholt Maylandsea Nacton Levington Bawdsey Bognor Regis Herne Bay Whitecliff Bay Harwich Wrabness Stutton
Blackheath Beds		Abbey Wood
Harwich Formation		Harwich Wrabness
Claygate Beds
Oldhaven Beds		Herne Bay
Reading Formation		Herne Bay Whitecliff Bay

Campanian 71 - 83 MYA
(Upper Chalk)	Belemnitella mucronate Zone	Studland Bay
Paramoudra Chalk
Beeston Chalk		West Runton
Weybourne Chalk		Weybourne
Pre-Weybourne Chalk
Portsdown Chalk Member		Whitecliff Bay Culver Cliff
Culver Group	Spetisbury Chalk Member	Whitecliff Bay Culver Cliff Bembridge Quarry
	Tarrant Chalk Member
Newhaven Group	Whitecliff Ledge Member	Whitecliff Bay Culver Cliff
	Bastion Steps	Peacehaven Whitecliff Bay Culver Cliff
	Meeching	Peacehaven Whitecliff Bay Culver Cliff
	Peacehaven	Peacehaven Whitecliff Bay Culver Cliff
	Old Nore Marl	Peacehaven Whitecliff Bay Culver Cliff

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