| Computer Code: |
SACR |
Preferred Map Code: |
SACR |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Pridoli Epoch (SO)
— Pragian Age (DP) |
| Lithological Description: |
Siltstones, silty mudstones and greenish grey, contorted bedded sandstones. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Faulted contact. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Faulted contact. |
| Thickness: |
30m thickness seen. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Faulted inlier near Portencross,Sheet 21/22W. |
| Parent Unit: |
Arbuthnott-Garvock Group (ATGK)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Sandy's Creek Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SACR]
(-1800)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Partial Type Section |
At Portencross on the Hunterston peninsular |
| Reference(s): |
| Patterson, E M. 1949. The Old Red Sandstone rocks of the West Kilbride - Largs District, Aryshire. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, Vol.21, pp.207-236. |
| Monro, S K. 1999. Geology of the Irvine District. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 22W and part of 21E (Scotland). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S022
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