The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Strathmore Group
| Computer Code: | SEG | Preferred Map Code: | STMR |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Emsian Age (DE) — Emsian Age (DE) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Interbedded sandstone and siltstone. These interfinger with clast-supported conglomerate containing well-rounded boulders, cobbles and pebbles predominantly of psammite, quartzite and lava in areas adjacent to the Highland Boundary Fault. Siltstone and mudstone are interbedded with the sandstone, particularly in Strathallan. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | At base of bright red, massive, poorly-sorted siltstone and silty sandstone of Cromlix Formation and its correlatives, where this overlies coarser-grained sandstone or conglomerate of Arbuthnott-Garvock Group. Locally diachronous in areas adjacent to Highland Boundary Fault where conglomerate and sandstone interfingers with Cromlix Mudstone Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Not seen. Base of Upper Devonian succession in the northern Midland Valley is unconformable. | ||
| Thickness: | 1800-2400m over much of the outcrop. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Northern Midland Valley, Arran to Stonehaven. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Not Applicable (-) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Strathmore Group
(SEG)
Strathmore Beds [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SEG] (-1811) Strathmore Group (SEG) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | Banks of River North Esk, near Gannochy. | ||
| Type Section | The banks of the river Teith, between Callander and Dunblane. | ||
| Type Area | Strathmore. See also type sections of component Cromlix Mudstone, Gannochy Conglomerate, and Teith formations. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Waters, C N, Gillespie, M R, Smith, K, Auton, C A, Floyd, J D, Leslie, A G, Millward, D, Mitchell, W I, McMillan, A A, Stone, P, Barron, A J M, Dean, M T, Hopson, P M, Krabbendam, M, Browne, M A E, Stephenson, D, Akhurst, M C, and Barnes, R P. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Northern Britain. (British Geological Survey.) | |||
| Paterson, I B, Hall, I H S and Stephenson, D. 1990. Geology of the Greenock district: Memoir for 1:50000 geological sheet 30W and part of sheet 29E (Scotland). | |||
| Allan, P A. 1940. The geology of the Highland Border from Glen Almond to Glen Artney. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 60, 185. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Browne, M A E, Smith, R A, and Aitken, A M. 2002. Stratigraphical framework for the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks of Scotland south of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/01/04. 67 pp. | |||
| Campbell, R, 1913. The geology of south-eastern Kincardineshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol.48, pp.923-960. | |||
| Armstrong, M, and Paterson, I B. 1970. The Lower Old Red Sandstone of the Strathmore Region. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences No. 70/12 | |||
| Hickling, G, 1908. The Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire Geological Magazine, Vol.5 (new series) p.396-408. | |||
| Armstrong, M, Paterson, I B, and Browne, M A E. 1985. Geology of the Perth and Dundee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 48W, 48E and 49 (Scotland). 108pp. | |||
| Carroll, S, 1995. Geology of the Auchenblae District. British Geological Survey Technical Report. WA/95/80. | |||
| Carroll, S, 1995. Geology of the Laurencekirk District. British Geological Survey Technical Report No.WA/95/81. | |||
| Francis, E H, Forsyth, I H, Read, W A and Armstrong, M. 1970. The geology of the Stirling district. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet 39 (Scotland). | |||
| Geology of the Fettercairn area, 1:10000 sheets NO67NW, NO67NE, NO67SW, NO67SE and NO68SE (south of the Highland Boundary Fault) : part of 1:50000 sheets 66E (Banchory), 66W (Aboyne), 57W (Forfar) and 57E (Montrose): British Geological Survey, Onshore Geology Series, Technical report WA/95/91 | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S066 S030 S030 S038 S038 S039 S039 S047 S048 S056 S056 S057 S057 S066 S013 S338 S048 S047 S047 | |||