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Bathonian series - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24) |
 | | The typical Bathonian is the Great Oolite series of England, and the name was derived from the "Bath Oolite," so extensively mined and quarried in the vicinity of that city, where the principal strata were first studied by W. Smith. |
 | | The Bathonian is the equivalent of the upper part of the "Dogger" (Middle Jurassic) of Germany, or to the base of the Upper Brown Jura (substage "E" of Quenstedt). |
 | | Rocks of Bathonian age are well developed in Europe: in the N.W. and S. oolite limestones are characteristically associated with coral-bearing, crinoidal and other varieties, and with certain beds of clay. |
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