| Computer Code: |
KSI |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Devensian Stage (QD)
— Devensian Stage (QD) |
| Lithological Description: |
Thinly interlaminated silt, sandy silt and plastic clay with dropstones and lenses of diamicton; becoming coarser-grained upwards. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Sharp, gently undulating erosion surface on Red Craig Gravels Formation below. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Sharp, planar, associated with glacitectonic shearing at base of overlying (unnamed) till. |
| Thickness: |
6.5m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Confined to Rosemarkie Glen, Rosemarkie, Black Isle. |
| Parent Unit: |
Inverness Glacigenic Subgroup (INVG)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Kincurdie Silts Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KSI]
(-4739)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Cliff immediately to the north of Rosemarkie Village. Section occurs halfway up the cliff. |
| Type Area |
Rosemarkie Glen, a deep glacial meltwater channel extending northwestwards from Rosemarkie. |
| 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). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S084
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