| Computer Code: |
REMU |
Preferred Map Code: |
REMU |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Famennian Age (DA)
— Famennian Age (DA) |
| Lithological Description: |
Mainly reddish sandy mudstones intercalated with sandstones and subsidiary siltstones. The local basal breccia of conglomerate is exposed at Siccar Point. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformable upon folded Llandovery rocks, well exposed at Siccar Point [NT 812 710]. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
The base of a predominantly sandstone succession belonging to the Greeenheugh Fomration. |
| Thickness: |
Estimated to be about 200 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Southern Uplamnds Terrane of Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Stratheden Group (SAG)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Upper Old Red Sandstone (part of) [Obsolete Name and Code: Use GNSA, REMU]
(-4068)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Redheugh Shore, from Hirst Rocks [NT 8267 7026] to Meikle Poo Craig [NT 822 708] to the east of Cockburnspath. |
| Reference(s): |
| Browne, M A E, Smith, R A, and Aitken, A M. 2002. Stratigraphical framework for the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks of Scotland south of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/01/04. 67 pp. |
| Greig, D C. 1988. Geology of the Eyemouth district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 34 (Scotland). |
| Balin, D F. 1993. Upper Old Red Sandstone sedimentation in the eastern Midland Valley area, Scotland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S034
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