The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Newlands Farm Formation
| Computer Code: | NWF | Preferred Map Code: | NWF |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Aeronian Age (SA) — Aeronian Age (SA) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Blue-grey, weathering bright yellow-buff, calcareous siltstone, with a locally rich shelly fauna. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Conformably overlies the Glenwells Conglomerarte Formation (GWC). | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Conformably overlain by the Glenshalloch Shale Formation (GLSH). | ||
| Thickness: | About 185 m thick. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Craighead Inlier, Girvan. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Newlands Subgroup (NEWL) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Newlands Group [Obsolete Name And Code: See NWF]
(NE)
Newlands Pentamerus Grits [Obsolete Name And Code: See NWF] (NPG) Newlands Beds [Obsolete Name And Code: See NWF] (NWB) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | Cliff section on the eastern bank of an unnamed burn, about 200 m east of Newlands Farm, Craighead Inlier, Girvan. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Cocks, L R M, and Toghill, P. 1973. The biostratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Girvan District, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 129, 209-243. | |||
| Lapworth, C, 1882. The Girvan Succession. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 38, 537-666. | |||
| Floyd, J D, and Williams, M. 2003. A revised correlation of Silurian rocks in the Girvan district, SW Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol. 93 (for 2002), 383-92. | |||
| Freshney, E C. 1959. An extension of the Silurian succession in the Craighead Inlier, Girvan. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasghow, Vol. 24, 27-31. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S014 | |||