Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation
The Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation is a geological unit which forms part of the Wealden Group and the uppermost and youngest part of the unofficial Hastings Beds. These geological units make up the core of the geology of the Weald in the English counties of West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent.
Cliffs of Tunbridge Wells Sand at Bexhill-on-Sea
A climber scales the Ardingly Sandstone at Bowles Rocks near Crowborough
Translational landslip at the boundary of the Wadhurst Clay and Tunbridge Wells Sand near Etchingham
Image: Serradraco sagittirostris Kellner and Rodriguez 2013
The Wealden Group, occasionally also referred to as the Wealden Supergroup, is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental (freshwater) facies sedimentary rocks of Berriasian to Aptian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays. The sandy units were deposited in a flood plain of braided rivers, the clays mostly in a lagoonal coastal plain.
Coastal exposure of the Wealden Group near Bexhill-on-Sea
Coloborhynchus
Image: Thecospondylus
Image: Becklespinax