| Computer Code: |
GAR |
Preferred Map Code: |
GAR |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Llandovery Epoch (SL)
— Llandovery Epoch (SL) |
| Lithological Description: |
Very thickly bedded massive sandstone including units of medium to thick-bedded greywackes (up to 500 metres thick). |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Faulted. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Faulted. |
| Thickness: |
Not defined. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Not defined. |
| Parent Unit: |
Gala Group (GALA)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Garheugh Formation [Obsolete Code: Use GAR]
(GRH)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Barhaskine to Garheugh Park, Scotland. Sheet 4(W). |
| Reference(s): |
| Gordon, A J. 1962. Not published. The Lower Palaeozoic rocks around Glenluce, Wigtownshire. Ph.D.Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1962. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S004
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