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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hampshire Basin canonical 9

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ
South Downs to the east ⓘ
contains Barton Group ⓘ
Bracklesham Group ⓘ
Eocene sediments ⓘ
Headon Hill Formation ⓘ
London Clay Formation ⓘ
Oligocene sediments ⓘ
Palaeogene sediments ⓘ
Poole Formation ⓘ
Reading Formation ⓘ
Solent Group ⓘ
Tertiary rock formations ⓘ
Thames Group ⓘ
country United Kingdom ⓘ
depositionalEnvironment estuarine ⓘ
fluvial ⓘ
shallow marine ⓘ
exposedAt Bournemouth coast ⓘ
Isle of Wight coastal cliffs ⓘ
New Forest area ⓘ
extendsInto Dorset ⓘ
Isle of Wight ⓘ
West Sussex ⓘ
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 ⓘ
notableFor classic Eocene and Oligocene type sections ⓘ
well-preserved Tertiary stratigraphic sequence ⓘ
overlies Wessex Basin ⓘ
partOf Wessex Basin system ⓘ
linked to: Wessex Basin
relatedTo London Basin ⓘ
separatedFrom London Basin by the Weald–Artois Anticline ⓘ
linked to: London Basin
studiedBy British Geological Survey ⓘ
studiedIn British regional geology ⓘ
underlainBy Cretaceous Chalk ⓘ

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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 ⓘ
Whiteley → region → Hampshire Basin ⓘ
Portland–Wight Basin → adjacentTo → Hampshire Basin ⓘ