| Computer Code: |
BAT |
Preferred Map Code: |
BAT |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Pragian Age (DP)
— Pragian Age (DP) |
| Lithological Description: |
A finely laminated, locally cross-bedded sandstone, more quartzose than the underlying formation. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
The top of the New Orleans Conglomerate Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Not seen as dips into the sea, elsewhere on Kintyre it is unconformably overlain by the Stratheden Group. |
| Thickness: |
At least 100 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
South of Campbeltown on the Kintyre Peninsula on Sheet 12, excluding Sanda and neighbouring islands. |
| Parent Unit: |
Arbuthnott-Garvock Group (ATGK)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
Am Binnein Formation
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Sea cliffs around The Bastard |
| Reference(s): |
| Friend, P F, and MacDonald, R. 1968. Volcanic sediments, stratigraphy and tectonic background of the Old Red Sandstone of Kintyre, west Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 4, 265-282. |
| Morton, D J, 1979. Palaeogeographical evolution of the Lower Old Red Sandstone Basin in the western Midland Valley. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.15, 97-116, Fig.1 |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S012
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