| Computer Code: |
PEE |
Preferred Map Code: |
Pee |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Toarcian Age (JT)
— Toarcian Age (JT) |
| Lithological Description: |
Dark grey/black mudstones of anoxic deposition dominate the succession, which is locally laminated, organic-rich and contains few benthic fossils. Poorly exposed. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Abrupt lithological change from sandstone of the Scalpay Sandstone Formation (SCS) to anoxic mudstone. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Passes up gradationally from organic-rich shales of the Portree Shale Formation to ironstone of the Raasay Ironstone Formation (RASI). |
| Thickness: |
2 m+ |
| Geographical Limits: |
Sea of the Hebrides Basin. |
| Parent Unit: |
Lias Group (LI)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Portree Shale [Obsolete Name and Code: Use PEE]
(-2970)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Tributary of the Inverarish Burn northeast of the main opencast workings [NG 5718 3689], Raasay. |
| Reference Section |
Roadside south of Faoilean [NG 5685 1972]. |
| Partial Type Section |
South of Dun Liath ruins, near Elgol, Strathaird, Skye. Morton and Hudson, 1995. |
| Reference Section |
Coastline east of the Trotternish Ridge, Skye. Morton and Hudson, 1995. |
| Reference(s): |
| Emeleus, C H, and Bell, B R. 2005. British Regional Geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland (4th edition). (Nottingham: British Geological Survey.) |
| Morton, N and Hudson, J D, 1995. Field Guide to the Jurassic of the Isles of Raasay and Skye, Inner Hebrides, north-west Scotland. In: Taylor, P D (editor), Field Geology of the British Jurassic. Geological Society of London, 209-280. |
| Morton, N. 1965. The Bearrenaig Sandstone Series (Middle Jurassic) of Skye and Raasay. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.1, 189-216. |
| Fyfe, J A, Long, D, and Evans, D, 1993. United Kingdom offshore regional report: the geology of the Malin - Hebrides sea area (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey.) |
| Cox, B M, Page, K N, and Morton, N. 2002. The Middle Jurassic stratigraphy of Scotland. In British Middle Jurassic Stratigraphy. Cox, B M, and Sumbler, M G (editors). Geological Conservation Review Series, Vol. 26. (Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee/Chapman and Hall.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S071
S080
S081
S051
S052
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