| Computer Code: |
GRNS |
Preferred Map Code: |
GRNS |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Asbian Substage (CR)
— Brigantian Substage (CX) |
| Lithological Description: |
A white to pale grey, generally fine-grained siliceous sandstone, described as evenly bedded and hard, but displaying cross-bedding as well. Intraclasts of ripped-up mudstone, siltstone and coaly plant remains are uncommon and localized in occurrence. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Conformable. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Conformable. |
| Thickness: |
36.27m in Reference Section. |
| Geographical Limits: |
South Central Fife, in the Burntisland area [NT 19 86 to NT 25 86]. |
| Parent Unit: |
Sandy Craig Formation (SCB)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Grange Sandstone Member
(-942)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Reference Section |
Newbigging No.1 Bore, NT28NW/22. (Top 30.76m. Bottom 67.03m.). |
| Reference(s): |
| Francis, E H. 1961. The Economic Geology of the Fife Coalfields, Area II, Cowdenbeath and Central Fife. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Scotland, 14-15 and 134. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S040
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