| 词条 | Hibernian Greensands Group |
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| name = Hibernian Greensands Group | image = | caption = | type = Group | age = Cenomanian to Santonian (late Cretaceous) | period = Santonian | prilithology = Marl | otherlithology = Siltstone, sandstone | namedfor = | namedby = | region = Northern Ireland | country = {{UK}} | coordinates = | unitof = | subunits = Kilcoan Sands, Collinwell Sands, Island Magee Siltstones, Belfast Marls | underlies = Ulster White Limestone Group | overlies = unconformable{{specify|date=March 2019}} | thickness = {{convert|21|-|22|m|ft|abbr=on}} | extent = throughout Northern Ireland | area = | map = | map_caption = }} The Hibernian Greensands Group is a late Cretaceous lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in Northern Ireland. The name is derived from the characteristically coloured marls and sandstones which occur beneath the chalk particularly along the Antrim coast. The strata are exposed on or near to both the northern and eastern coasts of Antrim and also between Portrush and Dungiven within County Londonderry. Further outcrops occur between Belfast and Lurgan and between Dungannon and Magherafelt. The current names replace an earlier situation where the present group was considered to be a formation and each of the present formations was considered a 'member'. Several other stratigraphic naming schemes were in use during the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century. Various units were earlier referred to as glauconitic or chloritic marls.[1] This group and the overlying Ulster White Limestone Group are the stratigraphical equivalent of the Chalk Group of southern and eastern England. Stratigraphy
There are unconformities (non-sequences) above and below the Collinwell Sands Formation. References1. ^Hopson, P.M., 2005 A Stratigraphical Framework for the Upper Cretaceous Chalk of England and Scotland with Statements on the Chalk of Northern Ireland and the UK Offshore Sector, British Geological Survey Research Report RR/05/01 (downloaded from www.bgs.ac.uk) {{Geology of Northern Ireland}}{{UK-geologic-formation-stub}}{{Ireland-geologic-formation-stub}} 3 : Upper Cretaceous Series of Europe|Geology of Ireland|Geology of Northern Ireland |
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