Computer Code: |
DVR |
Preferred Map Code: |
DVR |
Status Code: |
Full |
Age range: |
Sheinwoodian Age (SS)
— Sheinwoodian Age (SS) |
Lithological Description: |
Red and greyish-red mudstones, siltstones and shales, weakly bedded with minor small-scale cross-bedding. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Transition from underlying Douglas Water Arenite, taken where the proportion of red mudstones exceeds that of sandstone. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Top of uppermost bed of reddish mudstone beneath the predominantly grey arenaceous beds of the overlying formation (which may be stained red). |
Thickness: |
72m |
Geographical Limits: |
Lower Palaeozoic inlier of the Hagshaw Hills, Scotland, (50k Sheets 23E, 23W and 15W). |
Parent Unit: |
Glenbuck Group (GBK)
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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: |
Reference Section |
Roadside section (A70), 0.4 km west-north-west of Parish Holm Farm. (Partial). |
Partial Type Section |
Douglas Water section, 1.4km to 1.6km south-west of Parish Holm Farm. |
Reference Section |
Lochside exposures, Glenbuck Loch, 0.25km north-west of Parish Holm Farm. (Partial). |
Reference(s): |
Rolfe, W D I, 1961. The Geology of the Hagshaw Hills Silurian Inlier, Lanarkshire. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, Vol.18, Part 3, 240-269. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
S023
S023
S015
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