Hampshire Basin

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The Hampshire Basin is a geological sedimentary basin in southern England known for its Tertiary rock formations and influence on the region’s landscape and groundwater systems.

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Label Occurrences
Hampshire Basin canonical 7

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geological structure
sedimentary basin
boundedBy Dorset coast to the west
Isle of Wight monocline to the south
Portsmouth–Fareham–Winchester–Andover–Salisbury line to the north NERFINISHED
South Downs to the east
contains Barton Group NERFINISHED
Bracklesham Group NERFINISHED
Eocene sediments
Headon Hill Formation NERFINISHED
London Clay Formation NERFINISHED
Oligocene sediments
Palaeogene sediments
Poole Formation NERFINISHED
Reading Formation NERFINISHED
Solent Group NERFINISHED
Tertiary rock formations
Thames Group NERFINISHED
country United Kingdom
depositionalEnvironment estuarine
fluvial
shallow marine
exposedAt Bournemouth coast
Isle of Wight coastal cliffs
New Forest area NERFINISHED
extendsInto Dorset NERFINISHED
Isle of Wight NERFINISHED
West Sussex NERFINISHED
formedBy tectonic subsidence
geologicalAge Cenozoic
hasEconomicUse construction materials
groundwater resource
hasFossilContent Eocene marine fossils
Oligocene terrestrial fossils
influences groundwater systems in southern England
regional landscape of southern England
locatedIn England
Hampshire
southern England NERFINISHED
notableFor classic Eocene and Oligocene type sections
well-preserved Tertiary stratigraphic sequence
overlies Wessex Basin NERFINISHED
partOf Wessex Basin system NERFINISHED
relatedTo London Basin NERFINISHED
separatedFrom London Basin by the Weald–Artois Anticline NERFINISHED
studiedBy British Geological Survey NERFINISHED
studiedIn British regional geology
underlainBy Cretaceous Chalk

Referenced by (7)

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Fareham region Hampshire Basin
Wessex Basin hasSubBasin Hampshire Basin
London Clay Formation locatedIn Hampshire Basin
Lambeth Group geologicalSetting Hampshire Basin
Bagshot Beds notableExposure Hampshire Basin
Bagshot Beds stratigraphicUnitOf Hampshire Basin
Reading Beds region Hampshire Basin