

#INFERIOR OOLITE FULL#
Moving Into the Upper Inferior Oolite the Sherborne Limestone Member, which consists of exposed yellow brown fresh grey bioclastic limestone, while the overlying Combe Limestone Member, consists of rubbly limestone and marl, a full stratigraphy of the locality is given below The upper portion of which contains intensely bioturbated limestone. Within the vicinity of Yeovil it is divded into members which are in ascending order the Corton Denham Member, which predominantly consists of blue siltstone is about 2.5 m thick with the transitional top consisting of green Marl, the Oborne Ironshot Member, the term "ironshot" refers to ferruginised Oolite. Within Dorset, the Oolite is not subdivided into separately named formations, but is simply considered the Inferior Oolite Formation, sometimes subdivided into the Lower and Upper Inferior Oolite Formations. The ammonite Parkinsonia parkinsoni, an index fossil for the Bathonian, is native to the Inferior Oolite of Burton Bradstock.

The limestones are rich in organic material. oldest last) the Lincolnshire Limestone, Grantham and Northampton Sand formations whereas in the Cotswold Hills it consists of the Salperton Limestone, Aston Limestone and Birdlip Limestone formations. In the East Midlands it consists of (in descending order i.e. The group consists of up to 120 m thickness of oolitic limestones and subordinate sandstones and mudstones laid down during the Jurassic Period. Inferior Oolite (Doulting Stone) at Doulting Stone Quarry, England.
