| Computer Code: |
SCA |
Preferred Map Code: |
SCA |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Rhuddanian Age (SR)
— Aeronian Age (SA) |
| Lithological Description: |
Conglomerate (pebbles of vein quartz, lava, dolerite, chert and red jasper) and coarse sandstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Conformable on the Woodland Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Not seen |
| Thickness: |
45m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Girvan area, southwest Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Newlands Subgroup (NEWL)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Woodland Point, coast c. 2km southwest of Girvan. Cocks, L R M and Toghill, P, 1973. |
| Reference(s): |
| Cameron, I B, Stone, P, and Smellie, J. 1986. Geology of the Country around Girvan. Explanation of 1:50 000 sheet. British Geological Survey, Sheet 7, Scotland. |
| 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. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S007
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