| Computer Code: |
GLCS |
Preferred Map Code: |
symb |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
| Lithological Description: |
Dark metacarbonate rock and psammite with graphitic pelite and some garnet calcareous schist; crystalline metacarbonate rock locally developed at top of member. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Stratigraphical boundary with the underlying Tulaichean Schist Formation. Boundary placed at a massive weathering, dark, garnet-biotite rock, where developed. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Top of prominent blue-grey coarsely crystalline metacarbonate rock below the overlying dominantly graphitic Glen Taitneach Schist Member. |
| Thickness: |
250m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Northern part of Glen Shee district. |
| Parent Unit: |
Gleann Beag Schist Formation (GBSC)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Gleann Beag Schist [Obsolete Name and Code: Use GLCS, GTSC]
(-4064)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Glen Lochsie Burn. |
| Reference Section |
South side of Glen Lochsie. |
| Reference Section |
West slopes of Glen Taitneach. |
| Reference(s): |
| Crane, A, Goodman, S, Krabbendam, M K, Leslie, A G, Paterson, I B, Robertson, S, and Rollin, K. 1996. Geology of the Glen Shee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 56W and adjacent areas (Scotland). |
| Upton, P S. 1986. A structural cross-section of the Moine and Dalradian rocks of the Braemar area. Report of the British Geological Survey, Vol.17, No.1, 9-19. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S056
S065
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