| Computer Code: |
ALDP |
Preferred Map Code: |
SYMB |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
| Lithological Description: |
Micaceous psammites and semipelites with some pods and bands of calc-silicate rock. Contains a prominent white limestone in places. Phyllitic in places. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
At the top of flaggy psammites of the Corryhabbie Quartzite Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At the incoming of prominent thin beds of limestone in strongly banded rocks of the Glen Suie Limestone Member. |
| Thickness: |
c. 140m in Glen Suie, including any thickening due to folding. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Braes of Glenlivet, Glen Suie. |
| Parent Unit: |
Ailnack Phyllite And Limestone Formation (APAL)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Stream section, Allt Dregnie, Glenlivet. |
| Type Section |
Stream section, Back Burn, Glen Suie. |
| Reference(s): |
| Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 75, in preparation. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
