| Computer Code: |
BYNE |
Preferred Map Code: |
BYNE |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Arenig Series (OR)
— Arenig Series (OR) |
| Lithological Description: |
Leucotonalite ('trondhjemite'). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Intrusive contact. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Intrusive contact. |
| Thickness: |
Two similarly trending elongate bodies, each c. 1km x 0.25km |
| Geographical Limits: |
Girvan area, southwest Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Ballantrae Ophiolite Complex (BX)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Byne Hill Granite
(-743)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Grey Hill, 5km southwest of Girvan. Stone and Smellie, 1988. |
| Type Area |
Byne Hill, 3km south of Girvan. Bloxam, T W, 1968. |
| Reference(s): |
| Stone, P and Smellie, J L, 1988. Classical areas of British Geology: The Ballantrae area: a description of the solid geology of parts of 1:25 000 sheets NX 08, 18 and 19. [London: HMSO for British Geological Survey.] |
| Bloxam, T W. 1968. Petrology of Byne Hill, Ayrshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 68, 105-122. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S007
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