| Computer Code: |
PCH |
Preferred Map Code: |
PCH |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Llandovery Epoch (SL)
— Llandovery Epoch (SL) |
| Lithological Description: |
Lower grey shale unit and upper black shale unit. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Conformably overlies Saugh Hill Grits Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Disconformably overlain by Lower Camregan Grits Formation (Penwhapple North Group). |
| Thickness: |
60-150m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Girvan area, south-west Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Newlands Subgroup (NEWL)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Sedgwicki Shales [Obsolete Name and Code: Use PCH]
(-4245)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Penwhapple Burn, Girvan, Sheet SO08W. |
| Reference(s): |
| Lapworth, C, 1882. The Girvan Succession. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 38, 537-666. |
| Floyd, J D and Williams, M. 2003. A revised correlation of Silurian rocks in the Girvan district, SW Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol. 93 (for 2002), 383-92. |
| Cocks, L R M and Toghill, P, 1973. The biostratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Girvan District, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 129, 209-243. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S008
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