The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Eday Group

Computer Code: EDY Preferred Map Code: Edy
Status Code: Full
Age range: Givetian Age (DV) — Frasnian Age (DR)
Lithological Description: Comprises yellow sandstones with thin fossiliferous flags below and red and unfossiliferous above. Containing one volcanic horizon.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Drawn at the base of the Lower Eday Sandstone Formation where it rests conformably upon the Rousay Member of the Upper Stromness Flagstone Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Not overlain: highest Group in the Orkney Islands.
Thickness: c.1300m
Geographical Limits: Orkney Islands
Parent Unit: Old Red Sandstone Supergroup (ORS)
Previous Name(s): Hoy Sandstone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use EDY] (-1521)
Eday Beds [Obsolete Name and Code: Use EDY] (-1520)
Orkney Sandstone Group [Obsolete Name And Code: Use EDY] (OYS)
Eday Sandstones [Obsolete Name and Code: Use EDY] (-2169)
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Area  Eday and Eday Sound. 
Reference(s):
Mykura W, 1976 British Regional Geology: Orkney and Shetland (HMSO, Edinburgh).] 
Flett J S, 1898. The Old Red Sandstone of the Orkneys. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol 39, p.385. 
Fletcher, T P. 1996, A review of the lithostratigraphy of the Old Red Sandstone Supergroup in Scotland north of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen. BGS Technical Report WA/96/39R. 
Wilson, G V and others. 1935. The Geology of the Orkneys. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Scotland. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S119 S119 S116 S116 S117 S117 S120 S121 S122 S115