| Computer Code: |
KYSP |
Preferred Map Code: |
SYMB |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
| Lithological Description: |
At the top of the Glen Suie Limestone Member where limestone gives way to semipelite with thin limestone bands. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
At the top of the Glen Suie Limestone Member where limestone gives way to semipelite with thin limestone bands. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At the base of the Clashnoir Semipelite Formation, where laminated semipelite passes up into more weakly laminated, partly graphitic, semipelite. |
| Thickness: |
c. 230m in Braes of Glenlivet, up to 120m in type area (River Avon), possibly duplicated by minor/medium scale folding. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Kylnadrochit, Strath Avon, Glenlivet, Braes of Glenlivet, Glen Suie. |
| Parent Unit: |
Ailnack Phyllite And Limestone Formation (APAL)
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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: |
| Reference Section |
Stream section, Fore Burn, Glen Suie. |
| Type Section |
Extends from adjacent to Kylnadrochit Lodge to junction of River Avon and Allt na Cluaine. |
| Reference(s): |
| Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 75, in preparation. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
