The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Hatton Conglomerate Member
| Computer Code: | HCF | Preferred Map Code: | HCF |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Early Devonian Epoch (DL) — Early Devonian Epoch (DL) | ||
| Lithological Description: | A well-rounded cobble and boulder conglomerate of mainly metamorphic rock types, with beds of pebbly sandstone. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | The base of the lowest bed in which metamorphic rock types predominate in conglomerate clasts, overlying the Craighall Conglomerate Formation with its typically volcanic clasts. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | The top of the highest conglomerate bed beneath a sequence of cross-bedded pebbly sandstones of the Tannadice Sandstone Member exposed in the River Ericht at [NO 1787 4577]. | ||
| Thickness: | About 950 m thick | ||
| Geographical Limits: | The Blairgowrie to Alyth area, northern Midland Valley. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Scone Sandstone Formation (SCN) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Gourdie Conglomerate Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: See HCF]
(GCGF)
Hatton Conglomerate Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use HCF] (-4700) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | River Ericht section. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Crane, A, Goodman, S, Krabbendam, M, Leslie, A G, Paterson, I B, Roberston, S, and Rollin, K, 2002. Geology of the Glen Shee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 56W together with adjacent parts of sheets 55E, 65W and 64E (Scotland) | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S056 S056 | |||