| Computer Code: |
KPB |
Preferred Map Code: |
KPB |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Wenlock Epoch (SW)
— Wenlock Epoch (SW) |
| Lithological Description: |
Grey and dark grey laminated mudstones and silty mudstones. A few calcareous nodules. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Sharp base on greywacke/siltstone sequence of the Castle Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Transition to greenish grey silty mudstone of the Blaeberry Formation. |
| Thickness: |
50m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Muirkirk to Strathaven area, Strathclyde region, Central Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Priesthill Group [Cf Hagshaw Group] (PRH)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Partial Type Section |
Exposures along Blaeberry Burn. |
| Reference(s): |
| Walton, E K, 1965. "In" Craig, G Y, (Editor). The Geology of Scotland: Lower Palaeozoic rocks. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 161-227. |
| Jennings, J S. Not published. The geology of the eastern part of the Lesmahagow Inlier. Ph.D.Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1961. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S023
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