| Computer Code: |
VAG |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Early Devonian Epoch (DL)
— Early Devonian Epoch (DL) |
| Lithological Description: |
Conglomerate, sandstone and pebbly sandstone with lenses of conglomerate. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn where rocks of the Vaasetter Sandstone Formation (see Lithology Description) rest conformably on sandstone of the North Haven Beds. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Drawn at conformable upward passage from conglomerate of the Sheep Craig Sandstone to sandstone of the North Gavel Beds. |
| Thickness: |
c. 600 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Shetlands, Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Fair Isle Group (FIL)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Vaasetter Sandstone Group
(-597)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Fair Isle, southern Shetland, Scotland. |
| Reference(s): |
| Mykura, W, 1970. The Old Red Sandstone sediments of Fair Isle, Shetland Islands, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, No.41. |
| House, M R, Richardson, J B, Chaloner, W G, Allen, J R L, Holland, C H and Westoll, T S. 1977. A Correlation of Devonian rocks of the British Isles. Geological Society of London, Special Report No.8, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S126
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