Computer Code: |
KYSP |
Preferred Map Code: |
SYMB |
Status Code: |
Full |
Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
Lithological Description: |
At the top of the Glen Suie Limestone Member where limestone gives way to semipelite with thin limestone bands. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
At the top of the Glen Suie Limestone Member where limestone gives way to semipelite with thin limestone bands. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
At the base of the Clashnoir Semipelite Formation, where laminated semipelite passes up into more weakly laminated, partly graphitic, semipelite. |
Thickness: |
c. 230m in Braes of Glenlivet, up to 120m in type area (River Avon), possibly duplicated by minor/medium scale folding. |
Geographical Limits: |
Kylnadrochit, Strath Avon, Glenlivet, Braes of Glenlivet, Glen Suie. |
Parent Unit: |
Ailnack Phyllite And Limestone Formation (APAL)
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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: |
Type Section |
Extends from adjacent to Kylnadrochit Lodge to junction of River Avon and Allt na Cluaine. |
Reference Section |
Stream section, Fore Burn, Glen Suie. |
Reference(s): |
Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 75, in preparation. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
none recorded or not applicable |