Bibliography of the Yorkshire Chalk

and other useful references.

Barrois C 1876. Recherches sur le Terrain Cretace Superieur de l'Anglaterre et de l'Irlande. Mem Geol Soc Nord ,Lille vol 1, 232pp.

Blake J F 1878. On the Chalk of Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 5, 232-270.

Ennis W C 1929. Zones of the Yorkshire Chalk. Transactions of the Hull Geological Society 7,70-75.

Gale A S & Cleevley R J 1989. Arthur Rowe and the Zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast. -Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 100, 419-431.

Gaunt G D, Fletcher T P & Wood C J 1992. Geology of the country around Kingston Upon Hull and Brigg. Memoir for 1:50000 geological sheets 80 and 89 (England and Wales). H.M.S.O.,London, ix + 192pp. 6pl.

Gill R, 1996. Chemical fundamentals of geology. 2nd Edn. Chapman & Hall, London. 289pp.

Hancock J M and W J Kenndy 1980.  Upper Cretaceous Ammonite Stratigraphy: some current problems. Chap 10 p531-553 of The Ammonoidea, House M R and Senior J R (eds) Systematics Association Special Volume no 18, Academic Press, London and New York.

Hart M B & Bigg P J 1983. Arenaceous foraminifera from the late Cretaceous 'anoxic event' in Northern Europe. p89-90 in Verdenius J G, Van Hinte J E & Fortuin A R [eds] Proceedings of the First Workshop on Arenaceous Foraminifera 7- 9 September 1981, Continental Shelf Institute, Trondheim, Norway. 303pp.

Hill W 1888, On the lower beds of the Upper Cretaceous series in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Quaterly Journal of the Geological Society 44, 320-67, pl.12.

Horne M 1988. The Centenary Chalk Project of the Hull Geological Society. Humberside Geologist 6,19-20.

Horne M 1989. The History of the Hull Geological Society.Humberside Geologist no. 7, 40pp.

Horne M 1991. A Bibliography of East Yorkshire Geology 1938 to 1988. Humberside Geologist no. 9, 46pp.

Horne M 1991, The Black Band Member. p 12 13 of L H Emery. M J Horne & F Whitham South Ferriby and Welton Wold [Field Metting] 15 June 1991. Yorkshire Geological Society.

Horne M 1992. Flint Meal. Humberside Geologist 10,26.

Jeans C V 1968. The origin of the montmorillonite of the European Chalk, with special reference to the Lower Chalk of England. Clay Minerals 7, 311-329.

Jeans C V 1973. The Market Weighton Structure : Techtonics, Sedimentation and Diagenesis during the Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 39, 409-444.

Jukes Brown A J 1903. The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain. Vol II, The Lower and Middle Chalk of England. Memoir of the Geological Survey. xii & 499pp.

Jukes Brown A J 1904. The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain. Vol III, The Upper Chalk of England. Memoir of the Geological Survey. x & 566 pp.

Lamplugh G W 1895. Notes on the white Chalk of Yorkshire (parts I & II). Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society 5, 65-87 + pl XVI.

Lamplugh G W 1876. Notes on the Chalk of Yorkshire (part III) Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society 5,171-191 + pl XXII XXXIV.

Lomax A, Sherif K A T, Stancliffe R & Taylor W 1983. Stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of the Albian to Turonian Chalk, South Ferriby Quarry. unpublished report University of Hull, Geology Department.

Mitchell S F 1995. Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Hunstanton Formation (Red Chalk, Cretaceous) succession at Speeton, North Yorkshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 50, 285-303.

Mitchell S F 2000. The Welton Formation (Chalk Group) at Speeton, NE England; implications for the late Cretaceous evolution of the Market Weighton Structure. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 53, 17-24.

Neale J W 1974. Cretaceous. Chapter 8,p225-243 of Raynor D H & Hemmingway J E (eds) Geology and Mineral Resources of Yorkshire, Yorkshire Geological Society, 405 pp.

Rawson P F, Allen P & Gale A 2001. The Chalk Group - a revised lithostratigraphy. Geoscientist vol. 11, no. 1, 21.

Rowe A W 1904. The zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast. IV Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 18, 193-296.

Whitham F 1991. The stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Ferriby, Welton and Burnham Formations north of the Humber, north east England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 48, 227-254.

Whitham F 1993. The stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Flamborough Chalk Formation north of the Humber, north east England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 49, 235-258.

Wilson V 1948. British Regional Geology. East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. H.M.S.O.

Wood C J & Smith E G 1978. Lithostratigraphical classification of the Chalk in North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 42, 263-287.

Wood C J 1980. Upper Cretaceous. p 92 105 of Kent P British Regional Geology. Geology of Eastern England from the Tees to the Wash. H.M.S.O. 155pp.

Wright C W & Wright E V 1942. The Chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 53, 112-127.

Young K 1963. Upper Cretaceous Ammonites from the Gulf Coast of the United States. University of Texas, Publication no 6304. 373pp

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