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Speeton Geol.|ˈspiːtən|
The name of a village on the North Yorkshire coast, used attrib. with reference to a series of clays of Lower Cretaceous age which outcrop there.
1829J. Phillips Geol. Yorkshire i. iii. 74 From the termination of the white cliffs the coast bends to the northward, and exhibits in succession, rising from beneath the chalk, the Speeton clay and the coralline oolite series. 1882A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 816 The marine Neocomian strata of England are well exposed on the cliffs of the Yorkshire coast at Filey, where they occur in a deposit long known as the ‘Speeton Clay’. 1946L. D. Stamp Britain's Structure & Scenery xviii. 204 In the northern basin the Lower Greensand is represented by the Speeton Clays, with ‘carstone’, succeeded by marls and the famous Red Chalk of Hunstanton and Lincolnshire. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xiv. 323 On the north side of the Yorkshire Wolds a narrow out⁓crop of clays is found and it extends to the coast near Speeton. These clays, some 300 feet thick and known as the Speeton Series, range in age from the Ryazanian to the Albian. |