The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Kirkhill Church Sand Member
| Computer Code: | KHLCH | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Devensian Stage (QD) — Devensian Stage (QD) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Sand, pale yellow brown, slightly gravelly, fine and medium, quartzose. Sparse, rounded, quartzite and psammite metasedimentary pebbles. The deposit displays a thin and medium horizontal bedding and some planar cross bedding indicating palaeoflow to the west and southwest. Brown silt laminae are sporadically present. Heavy mineral suite similar to that of the Corse Diamicton Member. Interpreted as glaciofluvial outwash. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | The basal boundary of the deposit is unconformable, sharp, channelled surface cut into underlying dark grey to black diamicton of the Corse Diamicton Member (Whitehills Glacigenic Formation). | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | The upper boundary of the formation is generally the present ground surface. | ||
| Thickness: | To 1.5m | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Buchan, northeast Scotland. The member is only known within the immediate vicinity of Kirkhill Quarry (infilled) (centred on NK 0120 5285) on Sheet 87W (Ellon). | ||
| Parent Unit: | Blackhills Sand and Gravel Formation (BLSG) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Glaciofluvial sand and gravel
(GFSG)
Glaciofluvial sand and gravel (GFSG) Kirkhill Church Sand Formation (-994) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | North face, Kirkhill Quarry (infilled), 7km southeast of Stricken, Buchan, northeast Scotland. Connell, Hall and Romans, 1984. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| 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) | |||
| Connell, E R, Edwards, K J and Hall, A M. 1982. Evidence for two pre-Flandrian palaeosols in Buchan, Scotland. Nature, 297, 570-572. | |||
| Connell, E R and Hall, A M. 2000. Kirkhill and Leys quarries. 65-67 in Merritt, J W, Connell, E R and Bridgland, D R (editors), The Quaternary of the Banffshire Coast and Buchan: Field Guide. (London: Quaternary Research Association.) | |||
| Connell, E R, Hall, A M and Romans, J C C. 1984. Kirkhill Quarry. 57-81 in Hall, A M (Editor), Buchan Field Guide. (Cambridge: Quaternary Research Association.) | |||
| Connell, E R and Hall, A M. 1987. The periglacial history of Buchan, Scotland. 277-285 in Boardman, J (Editor), Periglacial Processes and Landforms in Britain and Ireland. Periglacial processes in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. | |||
| Hall, A M and Connell, E R. 1991. The glacial deposits of Buchan, northeast Scotland. 129-136 in Ehlers, J, Gibbard, P L and Rose, J (editors), Glacial Deposits in Great Britain and Ireland. (Rotterdam: Balkema.) | |||
| Hall, A M and Jarvis, J. 1993. Kirkhill. 225-230 in Gordon, J E and Sutherland, D G (editors), Quaternary of Scotland. Geological Conservation Review Series: 6. (London: Chapman and Hall.) | |||
| Merritt, J W, Connell, E R and Bridgland, D R (editors). 2000. The Quaternary of the Banffshire Coast and Buchan; Field Guide. (London: Quaternary Research Association.) | |||
| Sutherland, D G. 1999. Scotland. 99-114 in Bowen D Q (Editor), A revised correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Special Report of The Geological Society of London, No.23. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| none recorded or not applicable | |||