| Computer Code: |
POCR |
Preferred Map Code: |
POCR |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Early Devonian Epoch (DL)
— Early Devonian Epoch (DL) |
| Lithological Description: |
Brown and chocolate-brown, hard, compact, massive, cross-bedded and thinly bedded sandstone with conglomerate patches and lenses. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Faulted contact. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Faulted contact. |
| Thickness: |
From 450 m to 550 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Faulted inlier near Portencross, Sheet 21/22W. |
| Parent Unit: |
Arbuthnott-Garvock Group (ATGK)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Portencross Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use POCR]
(-3621)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Partial Type Section |
Portencross on the Hunterston peninsular. |
| Reference(s): |
| Monro, S K. 1999. Geology of the Irvine District. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 22W and part of 21E (Scotland). |
| Patterson, E M. 1949. The Old Red Sandstone rocks of the West Kilbride - Largs District, Aryshire. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, Vol.21, pp.207-236. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S022
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