The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Sarclet Group
| Computer Code: | SAR | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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| Status Code: | Full, pending ratification | ||
| Age range: | Pragian Age (DP) — Emsian Age (DE) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Dark or pale red sandstones, conglomerate, with red and pale green mudstones. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Drawn at base of Sarclet Conglomerate which rests unconformably on rocks of the Moine Supergroup. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Drawn at conformable upward passage from the Ulbster Sandstone of the Sarclet Group to the Ellens Goe Conglomerate of the Wick Flagstone Group. | ||
| Thickness: | 480m approx. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Northeast Highlands, Scotland. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Old Red Sandstone Supergroup (ORS) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Sarclet Sandstone Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SAR]
(-3017)
Barren Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SAR] (-3658) Sarclet Sandstone and Conglomerate [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SAR] (-1161) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Area | North-east Highlands, Scotland. | ||
| Type Area | Sarclet, north-east Highlands, Scotland. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Crampton, C B and Carruthers, R G, 1914. The geology of Caithness. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Scotland. Sheets 110 and 116 (Scotland). | |||
| Crampton, C B, 1907. Summary of the Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain for 1906, p.86. | |||
| Trewin, N H and Thirlwall, M F. 2002. The Old Red Sandstone. 213-249 in Trewin, N H (Editor), The Geology of Scotland. (London: The Geological Society.) | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S094 S094 S093 S109 S110 S115 S115 S116 S116 S083 S093 S109 | |||