| Computer Code: |
DHMU |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Late Paleocene (GPL)
— Early Eocene (GEE) |
| Lithological Description: |
The Dornoch Mudstone unit typically displays an overall upward coarsening from silty mudstone to muddy siltstone. In many distal sections, a gamma-ray peak occurs within the mudstone section, as in 9/18a-4, 21/1-6. In more proximal sections, the Dornoch Mudstone consists of a single upward-coarsening unit, with the highest gamma-ray values occurring at the base (e.g. 14/25-1). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Parent Unit: |
Dornoch Formation (DORN)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Knox, R W O'B and Holloway, S. 1992. 1. Paleogene of the Central and Northern North Sea. In: Knox, R W O'B and Cordey, W G (eds.) Lithostratigraphic nomenclature of the UK North Sea. British Geological Survey, Nottingham. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
