| Computer Code: |
FESP |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
| Lithological Description: |
Graded psammite, laminated psammite and micaceous psammite with bands of semipelite to pelite. Interpreted as an originally turbiditic succession. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Not interpreted to date but taken as the top of the Ord Ban Subgroup (Sheet 74E), where the semipelite, metacarbonate, calc-silicate, quartzite and amphibolite succession is overlain by interbedded psammite, semipelite and pelite belonging to the Feshiebridge Psammite Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Incoming of the predominantly semipelite succession at the base of the Falls of Phones Semipelite Formation, above the interbedded psammite and pelite succession of the Feshiebridge Psammite Formation |
| Thickness: |
possibly 0.5 to 2km |
| Geographical Limits: |
Northeast of Kingussie - Moor of Feshie |
| Parent Unit: |
Corrieyairack Subgroup (GRCO)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Moine Series [Obsolete Name and Code: Use FESP, FPHS, OSHP, TTRS]
(-4042)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Partial Type Section |
In the River Feshie at Feshiebridge, Inverness-shire. |
| Reference(s): |
| Leslie, A G, Krabbendam, M and Smith, R A, 2003. Progress Report on the Geology of 1:50 k Sheet 64W (Newtonmore) British Geological Survey Internal Report, IR/03/048. 23pp. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
