| Computer Code: |
TGSC |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Wolstonian Stage (QO)
— Wolstonian Stage (QO) |
| Lithological Description: |
Blue-grey shelly clay. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Rests on unfossiliferous sand and gravel (Barr Member of Sutherland, p. 109 in Bowen, 1999). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Overlain by up to 22.5 m of reddish brown diamicton (Corputechan Member) interpreted as a till. |
| Thickness: |
Up to 8 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Cleongart Glen, Kintyre. |
| Parent Unit: |
British Coastal Deposits Group (COAS)
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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 |
Cleongart Glen [NR 668 347], Kintyre. |
| Reference(s): |
| McMillan, A A, Hamblin, R J O, and Merritt, J W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03. 343pp. |
| Bowen, D Q. 1999. A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report, No. 23. |
| Sutherland, D G. 1981. The high-level marine shell beds of Scotland and the build-up of the last Scottish ice sheet. Boreas, Vol.10, 247-254. |
| Bowen, D Q, and Sykes, G A. 1988. Correlation of marine events and glaciations in the north-east Atlantic margin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Vol. 318, 619-635. |
| Horne, J, Robertson, D, Jamieson, T F, Fraser, J, Kendall, P F, and Bell, D. 1897. The character of the highlevel shell-bearing deposits in Kintyre. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1896, 378-399. |
| Jessen, A. 1905. On the shell-bearing clay in Kintyre. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, Vol. 8, 76-86. |
| Sutherland, D G. 1993. Nith Bridge. 541–542 in The Quaternary of Scotland. Gordon, J E, and Sutherland, D G (editors). Geological Conservation Review Series, No. 6. (London: Chapman and Hall.) |
| Synge, F M, and Stephens, N. 1966. Late- and postglacial shorelines and ice limits in Argyll and northeast Ulster. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 39, 101-125. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
