Montrose Group

Montrose Group
Stratigraphic range: Paleocene
Type	Group
Sub-units	Lista Formation, Maureen Formation & Thanet Formation
Underlies	Moray Group (North Sea) Lambeth Group (SE England)
Overlies	Chalk Group
Thickness	up to 600 m (2,000 ft)
Lithology
Primary	Clay
Other	Silt, sand, marl
Location
Region	North Sea and onshore southeastern England
Country	United Kingdom
Type section
Named for	Montrose, Angus

The Montrose Group is a stratigraphic group, a set of geological rock strata of Paleocene age, found beneath the North Sea and locally onshore in southeastern England.^[1] It was originally described from offshore exploration wells in the North Sea. The Thanet Formation in the London Basin has more recently been assigned to the group.^[2]

References

1. British Geological Survey. "Montrose Group". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units.
2. Aldiss D.T. (2014). "The stratigraphical framework for the Palaeogene successions of the London Basin, UK". Open Report OR/14/008. British Geological Survey. pp. 9–14. Retrieved 22 January 2018.