intervals in grey
‘chalk too has its dream. of the bone, on a white ground of endless beginnings.’
(jeremy hooker, the invisible globe, matrix, soliloquies of a chalk giant – enitharmon press, 1974)

chalk, clay, gouache (sandgate studio, 2018)
details
project: intervals in grey (a discontinuous sequence)
status: in progress
description: the stratigraphy of the gault formation and grey chalk subgroup are mapped for changes in colour, depth of beds and lithographic qualities
graphic score: drawn from the mapped and collected data.
music: tracing pieces part one – intervals in grey
location: folkestone, kent
geological era: mesozoic
geological period: cretaceous
geological age range: base of the middle albian to the upper cenomanian
journal
sampling, lithology, strata, sequence, archive. discontinuities, unconformities, anoxic events
upper cenomanian
(buff marl)
middle cenomanian
(rhotomagensis subzone)
lower cenomanian
(grey chalk)
(chalk marl)
(glauconitic marl)
(upper greensand)
upper albian
(upper greensand)
(gault clay)
middle albian
(gault clay)
lower albian
(lower greensand)

gault micro-fossils, sub-zone collection (copt-point, folkestone, 1989-2000)
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(foldout map - middle albian stratigraphy of the anglo-parts basin, h.g.owen 1971)
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(micro-material from sieved clay samples - cut section, beds 1-13, folkestone gault, 1989)