| Computer Code: |
FINQ |
Preferred Map Code: |
FinQ |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
| Lithological Description: |
Quartzite, thickly- to very thickly-bedded, rarely pebbly, cross-bedding well-developed. Contains thin beds of muscovite-rich and garnetiferous biotitc semipelite. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Not seen; covered by unconformably overlying Devonian rocks. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Fairly sharp change to medium- to thin-bedded quartzite of Logie Head Quartzite Member. |
| Thickness: |
c.1200m on coast section; cannot be distinguished separately inland. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Along coast section from Buckpool, Buckie [NJ 413 656] to Toshie's Long Craigs [NJ 4970 6835]; cannot be differentiated inland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Cullen Quartzite Formation (CUQU)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Findochty Sub-Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use FINQ]
(-1539)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
On coast from Buckpool, Buckie to Toshie's Long Craigs (west side of Cullen Bay). |
| Reference(s): |
| Peacock, J D, Berridge, N G, Harris, A L, May, F. 1968. The geology of the Elgin District. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Scotland. Sheets 86 and 96 (Scotland). (Edinburgh: HMSO). |
| 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). |
| Harris, A L, Haselock, P J, Kennedy, M J and Mendum, J R, 1994. The Dalradian Supergroup in Scotland, Shetland and Ireland. 33-53 in Gibbons, W E and Harris, A L (editors). A revised correlation of Precambrian rocks in the British Isles. Special Report of the Geological Society, London, No.22. |
| Stephenson, D, et al. 1993. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Dalradian rocks of the East Grampian Project area. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/93/91. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S096
S095
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