The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Flanders Moss Peat Formation

Computer Code: FLMP Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Full
Age range: Holocene Epoch (QH) — Holocene Epoch (QH)
Lithological Description: Peat, fine- and coarse-textured, dark to pale brown and locally orange, with wood fragments and a wide variety of organic remains also including Sphagnum; wedges laterally in some areas into laminated minerogenic sediments of the Carse Clay Formation.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Unconformable base on various local members of the Forth Clay Formation, Wilderness Till Formation (Main Late Devensian) and bedrock; also transitional base on clay gyttja and laterally passing into laminated minerogenic sediments of the Carse Clay Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: At surface or overlain partly unconformably by Holocene transgressive estuarine sand, silt and clay of the Carse Clay Formation including the Letham Silt Member and the Carse of Stirling Clay Member.
Thickness: Veneer at least 7m
Geographical Limits: Surface and buried peats in the Forth (from east of Aberfoyle). Earn (from Dalreoch Bridge eastwards) and Tay (eastwards from just north of Perth) valleys and Forth, Eden and Tay estuaries, Montrose basin areas. (Theoretically many members may be set up to reflect localised developments of peat).
Parent Unit: Britannia Catchments Group (BCAT)
Previous Name(s): Sub-carse peat [Obsolete Name and Code: Use FLMP] (-1540)
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Area  East and West Flanders Mosses, western Forth Valley. Smith and Holloway, 2000. 
Reference(s):
Smith, D E and Holloway, L K. 2000. The geomorphological setting of Flanders Moss. Forth Naturalist amd Historian, Vol.23, 3-20. 
Sissons, J B. 1969. Drift stratigraphy and buried morphological features in the Grangemouth-Falkirk-Airth areas, Central Scotland. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.48, 19-50 
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). 
Paterson, I B, Armstrong, M and Browne, M A E. 1981. Quaternary estuarine deposits in the Tay-Earn area, Scotland. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No.81/7. 
Browne, M A E, Graham, D K and Gregory, D M 1984. Quaternary estuarine deposits in the Grangemouth area, Scotland. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No.16/3. 
Robinson, M. 1993. Microfossil analyses and radiocarbon dating of depositional sequences related to the Holocene sea-level change in the Forth valley, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol.84, 1-60. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S038 S039 S039 S031 S048 S048 S049 S057