Heather Formation

The Heather Formation is a geological formation occurs in the North Sea, offshore the United Kingdom and Norway. It preserves fossils from the Bathonian to Oxfordian stages of the Middle to Late Jurassic period and was deposited in an open marine depositional environment.^[1][2]

Heather Formation
Stratigraphic range: Bathonian–Oxfordian
Type	Formation
Underlies	Kimmeridge Clay Formation
Overlies	Pentland Formation, Brent Group
Thickness	up to 700 m (Central North Sea)
Lithology
Primary	Claystone
Other	Siltstone
Location
Region	North Sea
Country	Norway, United Kingdom

See also

• Earth sciences portal
• Norway portal
• Paleontology portal

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Norway