Heather Formation

Heather Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian–Oxfordian
TypeFormation
UnderliesKimmeridge Clay Formation
OverliesPentland Formation, Brent Group
Thicknessup to 700 m (Central North Sea)
Lithology
PrimaryClaystone
OtherSiltstone
Location
RegionNorth Sea
CountryNorway, United Kingdom

The Heather Formation is a geological formation occurs in the North Sea, offshore the United Kingdom and Norway. It preserves fossils from the Bathonian to Oxfordian stages of the Middle to Late Jurassic period and was deposited in an open marine depositional environment.

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