| Computer Code: |
COLB |
Preferred Map Code: |
COLB |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Llandovery Epoch (SL)
— Wenlock Epoch (SW) |
| Lithological Description: |
Thinly-bedded greywacke sandstone, shale and calcareous siltstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Faulted. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Faulted. |
| Thickness: |
c.200m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Coldingham area, Berwickshire, southeast Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Applicable (-)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Coldingham Beds
(-807)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Rocks on foreshore, Coldingham Bay to the mouth of Fleurs Dean. Greig, 1988. |
| Reference(s): |
| Greig, D C. 1988. Geology of the Eyemouth district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 34 (Scotland). |
| Oliver, G J H, Smellie, J L, Thomas, L J, Casey, D M, Kemp, A E S, Evans, L J, Baldwin, J R and Hepworth B C. 1984. Early Palaeozoic metamorphic history of the Midland Valley, Southern Uplands - Longford Down massif and the Lake District, British Isles. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol.75, 245-258. |
| Shiells, K A G and Dearman, W R. 1966. On the possible occurrence of Dalradian rocks in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.2, 231-242. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S034
|
