The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Kingsteps Sandstone Formation
Computer Code: | KISA | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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Status Code: | Pending Upgrade | ||
Age range: | Late Devonian Epoch (DU) — Late Devonian Epoch (DU) | ||
Lithological Description: | Comprises of a basal breccio-conglomerate overlain by yellow and reddish grey, cross-bedded, coarse grained sandstones commonly containing mudstone rip-up clasts and associated pebbly beds. Thin beds of marly mudstone are sporadically distributed, together with thin conglomerates. The whole unit is calcareous throughout. | ||
Definition of Lower Boundary: | Requires fieldwork, or further research. | ||
Definition of Upper Boundary: | Requires fieldwork, or further research. | ||
Thickness: | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Geographical Limits: | South-east of the Great Glen Fault, around Nairn. | ||
Parent Unit: | Forres Sandstone Group (FSA) | ||
Previous Name(s): | (Kingsteps) Nairn Sandstones [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KISA]
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Nairn Sandstones [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KISA] (-4123) Nairn Sandstone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KISA] (-3498) Nairn Sandstone Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: Use KISA] (NSA) |
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Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Stratotypes: | |||
none recorded or not applicable | |||
Reference(s): | |||
Westoll, T S. 1951. The vertebrate-bearing strata of Scotland. 18th International Geological Congress, London, 1948, Vol. 9, p. 5-21. | |||
Fletcher, T P. 1996, A review of the lithostratigraphy of the Old Red Sandstone Supergroup in Scotland north of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen. BGS Technical Report WA/96/39R. | |||
Miles, R S. 1968. The Old Red Sandstone antiarchs of Scotland: Family Bothriolepididae. Paleontographical Society Monograph, No.552. | |||
Traquar, R H. 1905. On the fauna of the Upper Old Red Sandstone of the Moray Firth area. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Cambridge, 1904, 547. | |||
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
S084 S084 S095 |