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Weald clay
Weald Weald, n. [AS. See Wold.] A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. --Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.

Meaning of Weald clay from wikipedia

- Weald Clay or the Weald Clay Formation is a Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rock unit underlying areas of South East England, between the North and South...
- sandstone "High Weald" in the centre, the clay "Low Weald" periphery and the Greensand Ridge, which stretches around the north and west of the Weald and includes...
- skeleton was discovered in 1983 in the Smokejack Clay Pit, of Surrey, England, in sediments of the Weald Clay Formation, and became the holotype specimen of...
- the Weald of East Sus**** the lowermost part of the group is recognised by green glauconitic clays with a basal bed of phosphate nodules. These clays are...
- Conservation Review site. This site exposes Lower Cretaceous rocks of the Weald Clay Group, which have been studied since 1983. Fossils of six orders of insects...
- marine deposits. The sequence in the Weald Basin has also been described as a supergroup, containing the Weald Clay Group and Hastings Group. The Wealden...
- comprising specimens of one species from the Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian) Weald Clay (United Kingdom) and 12 species dating back only as far as the Upper Eocene...
- of alternating clays and sandstones laid down in the Lower Cretaceous, namely Upper Greensand, Gault Clay, Lower Greensand, Weald Clay and the Hastings...
- 592-593. "Sao Khua Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 569. "Weald Clay Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 559. Weishampel, David B; et...
- directory) List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations Kimmeridge Clay London Clay Weald Clay "Oxford Clay Formation". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. British...