| Computer Code: |
ALTO |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Devensian Stage (QD)
— Devensian Stage (QD) |
| Lithological Description: |
A dark grey to grey-brown compact diamicton containing shell fragments and Mesozoic erratics from the bed of the Moray Firth to the north-west (Peacock et al., 1968, Aitken et al., 1979). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
Elgin district. |
| Parent Unit: |
Banffshire Coast and Caithness Glacigenic Subgroup (BCD)
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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: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Bowen, D Q. 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No. 23. |
| McMillan, A A, Hamblin, R J O, and Merritt, J W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03. 343pp. |
| Hall, A M, Whittington, G, Duller, G A T, and Jarvis, J. 1995b. Late Pleistocene environments in lower Strathspey, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol.85, 253-273. |
| Peacock, J D, Berridge, N G, Harris, A L, May, F. 1968. The geology of the Elgin District. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Scotland. Sheets 86 and 96 (Scotland). (Edinburgh: HMSO). |
| Aitken, A M, Merritt, J W, and Shaw, A J. 1979. The sand and gravel resources of the country around Garmouth, Grampian Region. Description of 1:25 000 resource Sheet NJ 36. Mineral Assessment Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 41. |
| Hall, A M. 2000. Teindland interglacial site. 34–37 in The Quaternary of the Banffshire Coast and Buchan; Field Guide. Merritt, J W, Connell, E R, and Bridgland, D R (editors). (London: Quaternary Research Association.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
