| Computer Code: |
FIG |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Eifelian Age (DI)
— Givetian Age (DV) |
| Lithological Description: |
Coarse conglomerate with a seam of red clay containing fossil fish. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn at the base of the Findon Group where conglomerate rests conformably upon marl of the Crovie Group (CRO). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Drawn at the conformable upward passage of the Findon Group from conglomerate and breccia overlain by superficial deposits. |
| Thickness: |
24 metres. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Gamrie parish, Grampian region. |
| Parent Unit: |
Old Red Sandstone Supergroup (ORS)
|
| 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 |
Den of Findon in Gamrie Parish, Grampian region. |
| Reference(s): |
| Stephenson, D and Gould, D. 1995. British Regional Geology: the Grampian Highlands (4th edition). (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey.) |
| 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: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
