| Computer Code: |
KTBR |
Preferred Map Code: |
KTBR |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Permian Period (P)
— Permian Period (P) |
| Lithological Description: |
A coarse- to medium- grained breccia, composed of subrounded, poorly sorted, red micaceous wacke and shale clasts. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformable on Early Palaeozoic wacke sandstone of the Hawick and Riccarton groups. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Not seen. |
| Thickness: |
20 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Localised distribution in Annandale, south-west Scotland, on Sheet S10W. |
| Parent Unit: |
Appleby Group (APY)
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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 |
River section in the Water of Milk at Kettleholm, 5 km south of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway. Brookfield, 1978. |
| Reference(s): |
| Brookfield, M E. 1978. Revision of the Stratigraphy of Permian and Supposed Permian Rocks of Southern Scotland. Geologische Rundschau, Vol. 67, 110-143. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S010
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