page_title: Gault
hierarchical_section_title: Gault
caption_attribution_description: English: Rocks and Rock Pools Smoothed out gault clay on the beach below Beachy Head at low tide.
context_page_description: The Gault Formation is a geological formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep-water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period. It is well exposed in the coastal cliffs at Copt Point in Folkestone, Kent, England, where it overlays the Lower Greensand formation, and underlies the Upper Greensand Formation. These represent different facies, with the sandier parts probably being deposited close to the shore and the clay in quieter water further from the source of sediment; both are believed to be shallow-water deposits.
  The etymology of the name is uncertain and probably of local origin.
context_section_description: The Gault Formation is a geological formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep-water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period (Upper and Middle Albian). It is well exposed in the coastal cliffs at Copt Point in Folkestone, Kent, England, where it overlays the Lower Greensand formation, and underlies the Upper Greensand Formation. These represent different facies, with the sandier parts probably being deposited close to the shore and the clay in quieter water further from the source of sediment; both are believed to be shallow-water deposits.
  The etymology  of the name is uncertain and probably of local origin.
caption: An exposed surface of Gault clay on the foreshore near Beachy Head, East Sussex
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