Augering to the east of Newport, Isle of Wight, has proved the presence of the 'Variolarius Bed' at the top of the Selsey Sand Formation. As well as its characteristic flood of the foraminifer Nummulites variolarius it contains a biostratigraphically useful ostracod assemblage, characterised...
United Kingdom is one of the two sovereign states occupying the British Isles in the northwestern Europe and the Republic of Ireland. Most of the UK is nestled on the island of Great Britain and it shares its borders with the Republic of Ireland, the North Sea, the English Channel, the C...