The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Glenvale Sandstone Formation

Computer Code: GEF Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Full
Age range: Late Devonian Epoch (DU) — Late Devonian Epoch (DU)
Lithological Description: Brown, red, purple, yellow and cream coloured feldspathic sandstone, commonly containing bands of red siltstone and pebbles of silty mudstone, but no siliceous pebbles.
Definition of Lower Boundary: The boundary is gradational, and is drawn at the base of the brown, yellow, red, purple or cream sandstones of the Glenvale Sandstone Formation, where it rests conformably on the red or purple pebbly sandstones of the Burnside Sandstone Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Drawn at the probable conformable upward passage from brown, yellow, red, purple or cream sandstones of the Glenvale Formation to the white or cream sandstones of the Knox Pulpit Sandstone Formation. In the Cupar area, the Dura Den Member intervenes.
Thickness: Up to 350 m thick in the Lomond Hills area.
Geographical Limits: The Fife and Kinross area of the Midland Valley of Scotland, sheets 40, 48 and 49.
Parent Unit: Stratheden Group (SAG)
Previous Name(s): Glenvale Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use GEF] (-4673)
Clashbenny Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: Use GEF] (CHB)
Alternative Name(s): Kelly Burn Sandstone Formation
Stratotypes:
Type Area  Glen Burn, north and east of Glenvale, Lomond Hills, Fife, Scotland. 
Reference(s):
Browne, M A E, Smith, R A and Aitken, A M. 2001. A lithostratigraphical framework for the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks of Scotland south of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen. Version 3. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/01/04. 
Cameron, I B and Stephenson, D, 1985. British Regional Geology: The Midland Valley of Scotland (3rd Edition). (London: HMSO for British Geological Survey). 
Chisholm, J I and Dean, J M, 1974. The Upper Old Red Sandstone of Fife and Kinross: A fluviatile sequence with evidence of marine incursion. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 10, 1-30. 
Paterson, I B and Hall, I H S. 1986. Lithostratigraphy of the late Devonian and early Carboniferous rocks in the Midland Valley of Scotland. British Geological Survey Report, 18/3. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S040 S048 S049 S048 S048 S040