| Computer Code: |
FLOS |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Oxfordian Age (JO)
— Kimmeridgian Age (JD) |
| Lithological Description: |
Siltstone and mudstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Underlain by the Digg Siltstone Member (DIGS). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At Kildorais, Trotternish, the Flodigarry Shale Member is seen to be overlain by Paleocene palagonite tuff (Morton and Hudson, 1995). |
| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
Trotternish district, Skye, north-west Scotland.
A small fault-bounded sliver of mudstone and sandstone at Duart Bay, eastern Mull was also referred to the member by Barron et al. (2012). |
| Parent Unit: |
Staffin Shale Formation (SFSH)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Foreshore of Staffin Bay, Trotternish, northern Skye [NG 474 694 and NG 473 696] – Points 1 and 2 of Morton and Hudson (1995, fig. 38). |
| Reference(s): |
| Barron, A J M, Lott, G K, and Riding, J B. 2012. Stratigraphical framework for the Middle Jurassic strata of Great Britain and the adjoining continental shelf. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/11/06. |
| Morton, N and Hudson, J D, 1995. Field Guide to the Jurassic of the Isles of Raasay and Skye, Inner Hebrides, north-west Scotland. In: Taylor, P D (editor), Field Geology of the British Jurassic. Geological Society of London, 209-280. |
| Sykes, R M. 1975. The stratigraphy of the Callovian and Oxfordian stages (Middle-Upper Jurassic) in northern Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.11, 51-78. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
