| Computer Code: |
TARS |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Tonian Period (AT)
— Tonian Period (AT) |
| Lithological Description: |
Interbedded psammite, semipelite and pelite; quartz-pebble conglomerate locally at or near base. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Overlies Lewisian gneiss (L), with strongly sheared unconformity. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Not exposed. |
| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Geographical Limits: |
SW Sleat, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland: restricted to the Tarskavaig Nappe. |
| Parent Unit: |
Wester Ross Supergroup (WROS)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Tarskavaig Moines [Obsolete Name and Code: Use TARS]
(-3711)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Krabbendam, M. 2021. A stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of the Northern Highlands of Scotland. UK Stratigraphic Framework Series. British Geological Survey Open Report, OR/21/072. 86pp. |
| Cheeney, R, and Matthews, D. 1965. The structural evolution of the Tarskavaig and Moine nappes in Skye. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 1, 256-281. |
| Cheeney, R F, and Krabbendam, M. 2009. Tarskavaig. 341-344 in Lewisian, Torridonian and Moine Rocks of Scotland. Mendum, J R, Barber, A J, Butler, R W H, Flinn, D, Goodenough, K M, Krabbendam, M, Park, R G, and Stewart, A D (editors). (Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.) ISBN 1861074832 |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S071
S061
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