The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Hatton Conglomerate Member
Computer Code: | HCF | Preferred Map Code: | HCF |
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Status Code: | Full | ||
Age range: | Early Devonian Epoch (DL) — Early Devonian Epoch (DL) | ||
Lithological Description: | A well-rounded cobble and boulder conglomerate of mainly metamorphic rock types, with beds of pebbly sandstone. | ||
Definition of Lower Boundary: | The base of the lowest bed in which metamorphic rock types predominate in conglomerate clasts, overlying the Craighall Conglomerate Formation with its typically volcanic clasts. | ||
Definition of Upper Boundary: | The top of the highest conglomerate bed beneath a sequence of cross-bedded pebbly sandstones of the Tannadice Sandstone Member exposed in the River Ericht at [NO 1787 4577]. | ||
Thickness: | About 950 m thick | ||
Geographical Limits: | The Blairgowrie to Alyth area, northern Midland Valley. | ||
Parent Unit: | Scone Sandstone Formation (SCN) | ||
Previous Name(s): | Hatton Conglomerate Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use HCF]
(-4700)
Gourdie Conglomerate Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: See HCF] (GCGF) |
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Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Stratotypes: | |||
Type Section | River Ericht section. | ||
Reference(s): | |||
Crane, A, Goodman, S, Krabbendam, M, Leslie, A G, Paterson, I B, Roberston, S and Rollin, K, 2002. Geology of the Glen Shee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 56W together with adjacent parts of sheets 55E, 65W and 64E (Scotland) | |||
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
S056 S056 |