| Computer Code: |
LEAP |
Preferred Map Code: |
LEAP |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Early Mississippian Epoch (CMIE)
— Mid Mississippian Epoch (CMIM) |
| Lithological Description: |
Pyroclastic breccia or basaltic agglomerate in vent, intruded by trachyte and dolerite. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Intrusive. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Intrusive. |
| Thickness: |
Vent, elongate, c.300m x 600m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Hawick area, southern Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Kelso Subsuite (KELSO)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Summit of Leap Hill, c.12km south of Hawick. |
| Reference(s): |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S017
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