| Computer Code: |
FIC |
Preferred Map Code: |
FIC |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
Two lenticular bodies of mainly coarse greywackes with pebbles, cobbles and boulders. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Lowermost occurrence of pebbles or cobbles in greywackes. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Uppermost occurrence of pebbles, cobbles or boulders in mainly coarse greywacke sequence. |
| Thickness: |
200m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Not defined. |
| Parent Unit: |
Corsewall Formation (CLG)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Finnart's Point, Sheet SO07E. |
| Reference(s): |
| Floyd, J D. 1996. Lithostratigraphy of the Ordovician rocks in the Southern Uplands: Crawford Group, Moffat Shale Group, Leadhills Supergroup. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol. 86, 153-165. |
| Walton, J, 1956. Glen More, Cairngorms (2nd Edition). Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, National Forest Park Guides, Vol.XXII, p.133-151. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S007
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