| Computer Code: |
CRO |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Pragian Age (DP)
— Emsian Age (DE) |
| Lithological Description: |
Conglomerates, sandstones, flags and marls with ribs of limestone and pale red sandstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn at the base of the Dundarg Sandstone Formation (Crovie Sandstone Group) where it rests unconformably upon rocks of the Macduff Formation: conglomerate resting upon schist. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Unconformably overlain by the Middle Devonian Gardenstown Congomerate Formation (GDC) of the Inverness Sandstone Group. |
| Thickness: |
c.275m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Crovie, near Banff, in the Grampian region. |
| Parent Unit: |
Old Red Sandstone Supergroup (ORS)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Crovie Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CRO]
(-1461)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Area around Crovie. |
| Reference(s): |
| Read, H H, 1923. Geology of the country around Banff, Huntly and Turriff, Lower Banffshire and north-west Aberdeenshire. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Scotland Sheets 86 and 96 (Scotland). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S097
S096
S086
S087
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