The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Inshes Flagstone Formation

Computer Code: INF Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Full
Age range: Mid Devonian Epoch (DM) — Mid Devonian Epoch (DM)
Lithological Description: Red, green and grey flaggy sandstones with rare grey calcareous mudstones and limestones.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Conformable lower contact with Leanach Sandstone Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Upper contact not seen, (established).
Thickness: 100 metres +.
Geographical Limits: Fortrose and eastern Inverness district (Fletcher et al., 1996).
Parent Unit: Inverness Sandstone Group (INS)
Previous Name(s): Inshes Flagstone (-979)
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Area  Sheet 84W, Fortrose. 
Reference(s):
Fletcher, T P et al. 1996. Geology of the Fortrose and eastern Inverness district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 84W (Scotland). 
Waters, C N, Gillespie, M R, Smith, K, Auton, C A, Floyd, J D, Leslie, A G, Millward, D, Mitchell, W I, McMillan, A A, Stone, P, Barron, A J M, Dean, M T, Hopson, P M, Krabbendam, M, Browne, M A E, Stephenson, D, Akhurst, M C, and Barnes, R P. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Northern Britain. (British Geological Survey.) 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S084