The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Kelly Burn Sandstone Formation
| Computer Code: | KBS | Preferred Map Code: | KBS |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Late Devonian Epoch (DU) — Late Devonian Epoch (DU) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Mainly red, cross-bedded, pebbly sandstone with subordinate conglomerate beds. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Passes downwards into the Skelmorlie Conglomerate Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Apparent disconformity at the base of the Kinnesswood Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | About 1500 m thick. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Great Cumbrae-Inverclyde area, west of the Largs Fault Zone, on sheets 21, 22 (uncertain), 29, 30(W). | ||
| Parent Unit: | Stratheden Group (SAG) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Seamill Sandstone Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: Use KBS]
(SEA)
Seamill Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: Use KBS] (SS) Kellyburn Sandstone Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KBS] (-2260) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | Glenvale Sandstone Formation |
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| Type Section | Kelly Burn, north-east of Skelmorlie, sheet SO29E. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Waters, C N, Gillespie, M R, Smith, K, Auton, C A, Floyd, J D, Leslie, A G, Millward, D, Mitchell, W I, McMillan, A A, Stone, P, Barron, A J M, Dean, M T, Hopson, P M, Krabbendam, M, Browne, M A E, Stephenson, D, Akhurst, M C, and Barnes, R P. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Northern Britain. (British Geological Survey.) | |||
| Browne, M A E, Smith, R A, and Aitken, A M. 2002. Stratigraphical framework for the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks of Scotland south of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/01/04. 67 pp. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Bluck, B J. 1978. Sedimentation in a late orogenic basin; the Old Red Sandstone of the Midland Valley of Scotland. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Memoirs No. 12. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S029 S021 S022 S030 S030 | |||