| Computer Code: |
DHLC |
Preferred Map Code: |
DHLC |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
Thickly bedded conglomerate with partings of blue-grey green-weathering mudstones passing upwards into poorly-bedded dark green conglomerate with pebbles of spilite, gabbro, red granite, vein quartz and chert. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Succeeds the dark grey mudstones of the Laggan Member of the Balclatchie Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Succeeded by the mudstones of the Pumphouse Member of the Balclatchie Formation. |
| Thickness: |
c.240m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Girvan area, southwest Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Balclatchie Formation (BCH)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Doon Hill Conglomerate [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DHLC]
(-1499)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Section from Doon Hill, across Penwhapple Burn and onto Green Hill. Williams, 1962. |
| Reference(s): |
| Williams, A, 1962. The Barr and Lower Ardmillan Series (Caradoc) of the Girvan district, southwest Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda. Memoir of the Geological Society of London, No.3. |
| Fortey, R A, Harper, D A T, Ingham, J K, Owen, A W, Parkes, M A, Rushton, A W A, and Woodcock, N H. 2000. A revised correlation of Ordovician rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No.24. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
