| Computer Code: |
LOC |
Preferred Map Code: |
Loc |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Cisuralian Epoch (PLC)
— Cisuralian Epoch (PLC) |
| Lithological Description: |
Well sorted sandy breccia with clasts of bladed greywacke, argillite and purple amygdaloidal basalt. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Rests on thin sequence of Carron Basalt Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Passes up by alternation into aeolian desert dune sandstone of the Thornhill Sandstone Formation. |
| Thickness: |
50m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Locherben Outlier approximately 2km sq. |
| Parent Unit: |
Stewartry Group (STEW)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Permian Breccias (Undivided)
(-875)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
450m south-east of Locherben. |
| 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: |
|
S009
|
