Computer Code: |
ALDP |
Preferred Map Code: |
SYMB |
Status Code: |
Full |
Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
Lithological Description: |
Micaceous psammites and semipelites with some pods and bands of calc-silicate rock. Contains a prominent white limestone in places. Phyllitic in places. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
At the top of flaggy psammites of the Corryhabbie Quartzite Formation. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At the incoming of prominent thin beds of limestone in strongly banded rocks of the Glen Suie Limestone Member. |
Thickness: |
c. 140m in Glen Suie, including any thickening due to folding. |
Geographical Limits: |
Braes of Glenlivet, Glen Suie. |
Parent Unit: |
Ailnack Phyllite And Limestone Formation (APAL)
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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 |
Stream section, Back Burn, Glen Suie. |
Reference Section |
Stream section, Allt Dregnie, Glenlivet. |
Reference(s): |
Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 75, in preparation. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
none recorded or not applicable |