| Computer Code: |
NE |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Llandovery Epoch (SL)
— Llandovery Epoch (SL) |
| Lithological Description: |
[Obsolete: use NWF] Black shales, flaggy greywackes and shales, conglomerates, grits, limestones and mudstones. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn at base of conglomerate of the Mulloch Hill Group where it rests unconformably on mudstone and sandstone interpreted to belong to the Shalloch Flagstone Group, and conformably on probable Drummuck Group rocks. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Drawn at conformable upward passage from grits probably belomging to the Camregan Group, to purple shales and mudstone of the Penkill Group. |
| Thickness: |
Approx. 320 metres. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Girvan district, Strathclyde, Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Newlands Series [Obsolete Name and Code: Use NE, PNO, NEWL, DAI]
(-185)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Craighead Inlier, north-west of Dailly, near Girvan, Strathclyde, Scotland. |
| Type Area |
Camregan Hill, near Girvan, Strathclyde, Scotland. |
| Type Area |
Woodland Bay, near Girvan, Strathclyde, Scotland. |
| Reference(s): |
| Lapworth, C, 1882. The Girvan Succession. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 38, 537-666. |
| Peach, B N and Horne, J. 1899. The Silurian Rocks of Britain, Volume 1. Scotland. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. |
| Jones, O T, 1921. The Valentian Series. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol.77, p.154-157. |
| Greig, D C. 1971. British Regional Geology: the South of Scotland (3rd Edition). (Edinburgh: HMSO for the Institute of Geological Sciences.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
