Frome Clay | |
Type: | Formation |
Age: | Bathonian ~ |
Period: | Bathonian |
Prilithology: | Mudstone |
Otherlithology: | Limestone |
Region: | England |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Coordinates: | 51.2°N -2.3°W |
Paleocoordinates: | 41.4°N 10.1°W |
Unitof: | Great Oolite Group |
Underlies: | Forest Marble Formation |
Overlies: | Fuller's Earth Formation |
Thickness: | 20- in Wiltshire and Somerset 45- in Dorset |
The Frome Clay is a geological formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic period.[1]