The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Kippet Hills Gravels Formation
| Computer Code: | KHG | Preferred Map Code: | KH |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Devensian Stage (QD) — Devensian Stage (QD) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Gravels and sands. Besides local rock types (eg psammite) clasts include distinctive Mesozoic/Tertiary limestones and mudstone/shell fragments of Red Crag affinity from the Aberdeen Ground Formation. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Generally unconformable on bedrock or older tills (eg Pitlurg Farm Till Formation). Locally interbedded with Hatton Till Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Occurs to surface or capped unconformably by the Hatton Till Formation or postglacial deposits. | ||
| Thickness: | 15m or more locally | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Coastal lowland north of Aberdeen, east of Ellon and south of Peterhead. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Logie-Buchan Glacigenic Subgroup (LBD) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Glacial sand and gravel [Obsolete Name and Code]
(GSG)
Kippet Hills Gravels [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KHG] (-2263) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Partial Type Section | Whitefields Pit (section 03SW12 of Merritt, 1981.) 7.5km eastnortheast of Ellon. | ||
| Partial Type Section | Bellscamphie railway cutting (abandoned). Trial pits described in Hall and Jarvis (1995). 7km east northeast of Ellon. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Hall, A M and Jarvis, J. 1995. A multiple till sequence near Ellon, Grampian Region: T F Jamieson's "indigo boulder clay" re-examined. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.31, 53-59. | |||
| Merritt, J W. 1981. The sand and gravel resources of the country around Ellon, Grampian Region. Description of 1:25 000 resource sheet NJ93 with parts of NJ82, NJ83 and NJ92, NK03 and parts of NK02 and NK13. Mineral assessment Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 76. | |||
| Merritt, J W, Auton, C A, Connell, E R, Hall, A M and Peacock, J D. 2003. The Cainozoic geology and landscape evolution of north-east Scotland. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 66E, 67, 76E, 77, 86E, 87W, 87E, 95, 96W, 96E and 97 (Scotland) | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S087 S087 S077 | |||