| Computer Code: |
CDQU |
Preferred Map Code: |
symb |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
| Lithological Description: |
Clean white pebbly quartzite with cross-bedding. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Position where dominantly quartzite succession replaces the dominantly graphitic succession of the Blair Atholl Subgroup. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Top of clean white thickly bedded quartzites below the more thinly bedded, cream and less clean quartzites of the Bad an Loin Member. |
| Thickness: |
To 200m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Northern part of Glen Shee district (Sheet 56W). |
| Parent Unit: |
Creag Leacach Quartzite Formation (CLQU)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Parts of Creag Leacach Quartzite [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CDQU]
(-2676)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Creag Leacach - Carn an Daimh ridge. |
| Type Area |
Carn Dubh area. |
| Reference(s): |
| Crane, A, Goodman, S, Krabbendam, M K, Leslie, A G, Paterson, I B, Robertson, S and Rollin, K, 1996. Geology of the Glen Shee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 56W and adjacent areas (Scotland). |
| Upton, P S. 1986. A structural cross-section of the Moine and Dalradian rocks of the Braemar area. Report of the British Geological Survey, Vol.17, No.1, 9-19. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S056
S065
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