| Computer Code: |
DVC |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Mid Devonian Epoch (DM)
— Mid Devonian Epoch (DM) |
| Lithological Description: |
Red and purple cobble-boulder conglomerate with sporadic thin sandstone lenses and rare thin limestone lenses. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformable base on Pre-Cambrian rocks. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Conformable upper contact with Nairnside Sandstone Formation. |
| Thickness: |
200 metres +. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Inverness region, Highlands, Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Inverness Sandstone Group (INS)
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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: |
| Type Area |
Sheet 84W. |
| Reference(s): |
| Stephenson, D and Gould, D. 1995. British Regional Geology: the Grampian Highlands (4th edition). (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey.) |
| Waters, C N, Gillespie, M R, Smith, K, Auton, C A, Floyd, J D, Leslie, A G, Millward, D, Mitchell, W I, McMillan, A A, Stone, P, Barron, A J M, Dean, M T, Hopson, P M, Krabbendam, M, Browne, M A E, Stephenson, D, Akhurst, M C, and Barnes, R P. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Northern Britain. (British Geological Survey.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S084
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