The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Loch Tay Limestone Formation
| Computer Code: | LTAY | Preferred Map Code: | symb |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) — Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Schistose calcareous psammite and semipelite with units of blue-grey, crystalline meta-carbonate rock up to 10m thick. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Base of calcareous lithologies above dominantly semipelitic rocks of the Ben Lui Schist Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Top of highest metacarbonate rock unit below the Mount Blair Psammite and Semipelite Formation or undivided Southern Highland Group. | ||
| Thickness: | Not known. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Campbeltown to Glen Isla. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Tayvallich Subgroup (DBTV) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Loch Tay Limestone [Obsolete Name And Code: Use LTAY]
(DBLT)
Loch Tay Limestone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use LTAY] (*398) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | East of Auchintaple Loch - several small quarries. | ||
| Reference Section | Wester Bleaton Quarry. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Crane, A, Goodman, S, Krabbendam, M K, Leslie, A G, Paterson, I B, Robertson, S and Rollin, K, 1996. Geology of the Glen Shee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 56W and adjacent areas (Scotland). | |||
| Elles, G L, 1926. The geological structure of Ben Lawers and Meall Corranaich (Perthshire). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol.82, 304-331. | |||
| McCallien, W J, 1929. The metamorphic rocks of Kintyre. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol.56, 409-436. | |||
| Roberts, J L, 1966. Sedimentary affiliations and stratigraphic correlation of the Dalradian rocks in the south-west Highlands of Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.2, 200-223. | |||
| Barrow, G, Grant Wilson, J S, and Cunningham Craig, E H. 1905. The geology of the country around Blair Atholl, Pitlochry and Aberfeldy. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Scotland (Sheet 55). | |||
| Bailey, E B. 1925. Perthshire tectonics: Loch Tummel, Blair Atholl and Glen Shee. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 53, 671-698. | |||
| Johnstone, G S and Smith, D I, 1965. Geological observations concerning the Breadalbane Hydroelectric Project, Perthshire. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, No.22, 1-52. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S056 S055 S029 S020 S012 S028 S055 S038 S045 S054 S046 S047 S047 S046 | |||