The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Kirkhill Conglomerate Member
| Computer Code: | KKH | Preferred Map Code: | KKH |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Wenlock Epoch (SW) — Wenlock Epoch (SW) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Mainly conglomerate, with quartzite pebbles most common, but also chert, vein quartz and igneous rocks set in an olive-grey and brownish grey sandstone matrix; some sandstone lenses. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Incoming of the predominantly conglomerate succession belonging to the Kirk Hill Conglomerate Member above the Newside Arenite Member of the Westgate Formation | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | The top of the predominantly conglomerate succession belonging to the Kirk Hill Conglomerate Member of the Westgate Formation below the Eastgate Sandstone Member | ||
| Thickness: | To 60m | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Carmichael Inlier, Lanarkshire, Scotland. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Westgate Formation (WGAT) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Kirk Hill Conglomerate [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KKH, WGAT]
(-2875)
Quartzite-conglomerate [Obsolete Name and Code: Use KKH] (-2876) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Area | Exposures around Kirk Hill, 200m southeast of East Mains Farm, Carmichael, Lanarkshire. Rolfe, 1960 | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Rolfe, W D I, 1960. The Silurian inlier of Carmichael, Lanarkshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol.64, 245-260 | |||
| Read, H H, 1927. The geology of the country around Edinburgh: The Tinto district. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, London. Vol.38, 499-504 | |||
| Phillips E R, Barron, H F, Smith, R A, and Arkley, S. 2004. Composition and provenance of the Silurian to Devonian sandstone sequences of the southern Midland Valley. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2004). | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S023 | |||