| Computer Code: |
CAGA |
Preferred Map Code: |
CAGA |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Pridoli Epoch (SO)
— Early Devonian Epoch (DL) |
| Lithological Description: |
Diorite. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Intrusive contact. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Intrusive contact. |
| Thickness: |
c. 0.3 square km in total area (elongate) |
| Geographical Limits: |
Rhins of Galloway, southwest Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Galloway Granitic Suite (GALGR)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Cairngarroch Bay, Rhins of Galloway. |
| Reference(s): |
| Stone, P, 1995. Geology of the Rhins of Galloway district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 1 & 3 (Scotland). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S001
S003
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