| Computer Code: |
LOGF |
Preferred Map Code: |
LOGF |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Wenlock Epoch (SW)
— Wenlock Epoch (SW) |
| Lithological Description: |
Greyish red or pale brown sandstones and beds of greyish red silty mudstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Conformable transition from greenish grey sandstones and siltstone of Slot Burn Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Unconformable junction with overlying conglomerate of the Middlefield Conglomerate Formation. |
| Thickness: |
250m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Muirkirk to Strathaven area, Strathclyde region, Central Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Waterhead Group (Cf Glenbuck Group) (WHD)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Logan Water Beds [Obsolete Name And Code: Use LOGF]
(LOW)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Partial Type Section |
Sections in Regal Water. |
| Reference(s): |
| Jennings, J S. Not published. The geology of the eastern part of the Lesmahagow Inlier. Ph.D.Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1961. |
| Walton, E K, 1965. "In" Craig, G Y, (Editor). The Geology of Scotland: Lower Palaeozoic rocks. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 161-227. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S023
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