| Computer Code: |
KDY |
Preferred Map Code: |
KDY |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Arenig Series (OR)
— Arenig Series (OR) |
| Lithological Description: |
Non-stratified, monomict, brown and green aphyric lava-breccia with spporadic isolated pillows and intact lava-masses. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Faulted against the Brandy Craig Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Faulted against younger rocks of the Barr and Ardmillan groups (Llanvirn - Caradoc). |
| Thickness: |
c.115m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Girvan - Ballantrae area, southwest Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Balcreuchan Group (BCN)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Coast at Kennedy's Pass, Girvan, southwest Scotland. Stone and Smellie, 1988. |
| Reference(s): |
| Peach, B N and Horne, J. 1899. The Silurian Rocks of Britain, Volume 1. Scotland. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. |
| Stone, P and Smellie, J L, 1988. Classical areas of British Geology: The Ballantrae area: a description of the solid geology of parts of 1:25 000 sheets NX 08, 18 and 19. [London: HMSO for British Geological Survey.] |
| Cameron, I B, Stone, P, and Smellie, J. 1986. Geology of the Country around Girvan. Explanation of 1:50 000 sheet. British Geological Survey, Sheet 7, Scotland. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
