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    The Wessex Basin is a petroleum-bearing geological area located along the southern coast of England and extending into the English Channel. The onshore...
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    1979. The Wessex Formation forms part of the Wealden Group within the Wessex Basin, an area of subsidence since Permo-Triassic times. The basin is located...
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    almost all Early Cretaceous basins of England: its outcrops curve from the Wessex Basin in the south to the Cleveland Basin in the northeast. It is not...
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    faulting from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Basin (underlying the Weald and Hampshire Basin) to the south and the Worcester Basin to the west. Vertical movements...
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    area was part of the Wessex Basin, bordered by the London-Brabant, Armorican, Cornubian, and Welsh Massifs, divided into sub-basins by east-west faults...
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    southern Wessex Basin — a review of new information from oil exploration". The development, evolution and petroleum geology of the Wessex Basin. Special...
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  • and led to the formation of the Weald basin, which developed as an extension of the considerably larger Wessex Basin . Reconstructions of the geometry of...
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    natural gas store. These are in the west of the county in the Wessex Basin. The Weald Basin to the east has potential as a source of shale oil but is not...
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    in the UK. However, after some initial success drilling a well in the Wessex Basin in 1981, it was deemed too small to be commercially viable. The project...
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    of Toarcian (Early Jurassic) age and is found in the Worcester and Wessex Basins. The sandstone is very-fine grained to fine-grained and contains regular...
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    formation of Albian to Cenomanian in age, found within the Wessex Basin and parts of the Weald Basin in southern England. It overlies the Gault Clay and underlies...
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  • sedimentary basins. Provinces and Basins (from south to north) include the Wessex-Channel Basin, Weald Basin, Worcester Basin, Cheshire Basin, East Midlands...
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    Cheshire Basin Worcester Basin Hampshire Basin Cardigan Bay Basin St George's Channel Basin Wessex Basin Rockall Basin Porcupine Basin The negative anomaly...
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    Marlstone Rock Formation Overlies Charmouth Mudstone Formation Area Wessex Basin, Worcester Basin, East Midlands Shelf Thickness ~125 m Lithology Primary mudstone...
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    Weighton, Yorkshire, and in the subsurface of the East Midlands Shelf and Wessex Basin. The formation is notable for its fossils, including those of ammonites...
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    during the late Barremian to early Aptian when Eotyrannus lived. In the Wessex Basin, sedimentological evidence, as well as fossils such as mud-cracks, suggests...
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    1979 the basins of principal interest are East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, Wessex, Worcester, Cheshire, West Lancashire, Carlisle, and basins in Northern...
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    "Arm hooks of coleoid cephalopods from the Jurassic succession of the Wessex Basin, Southern England". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 130 (3–4):...
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    emergent highs of Jurassic rocks, unconformably overlying them. In the Weald Basin, the Lower Greensand can usually be subdivided to formational levels with...
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  • in the subsurface of the Wessex Basin and offshore in the English Channel Basin, Celtic Sea Basin and St George's Channel Basin. It preserves fossils dating...
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  • rift basins. To the north lay the Bristol Channel Basin, extending westwards into the South Celtic Sea Basin, to the east the precursor to the Wessex Basin...
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    Stratigraphic section of the Bouldnor Formation Lithostratigraphy of the Wessex Basin. Stratigraphic section, major tectonic events, and stratigraphic units...
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    increasingly saline down dip as the aquifer becomes confined in the Wessex Basin. In England, Corallian Limestone is to be found in Dorset, Wiltshire...
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    (Sinemurian to Pliensbachian) genetic stratigraphic sequences in the Wessex Basin, England". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 133 (1):...
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  • sedimentary basins of Britain and Ireland are numerous, occurring beneath both the land surface of these islands and the surrounding seas. Sedimentary basins (not...
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    The Wessex culture is the predominant prehistoric culture of central and southern Britain during the early Bronze Age, originally defined by the British...
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    Dorset up to the Humber. It is also present at depth in the Weald and Wessex Basins, as well as offshore. Several of the constituent formations, notably...
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  • cubic feet of recoverable shale gas. The Jurassic shales of the Wessex Basin and Weald Basin of southern England were estimated to have 600 billion cubic...
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    Sand Formation. It forms part of the Lias Group. It is found within the Wessex Basin and parts of Somerset, in England. It is well known for the Strawberry...
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    The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries...
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