The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Scart Grits Formation

Computer Code: SCA Preferred Map Code: SCA
Status Code: Full
Age range: Rhuddanian Age (SR) — Aeronian Age (SA)
Lithological Description: Conglomerate (pebbles of vein quartz, lava, dolerite, chert and red jasper) and coarse sandstone.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Conformable on the Woodland Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Not seen
Thickness: 45m
Geographical Limits: Girvan area, southwest Scotland.
Parent Unit: Newlands Subgroup (NEWL)
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Section  Woodland Point, coast c. 2km southwest of Girvan. Cocks, L R M and Toghill, P, 1973. 
Reference(s):
Cameron, I B, Stone, P and Smellie, J, 1986. Geology of the Country around Girvan. Explanation of 1:50 000 sheet. British Geological Survey, Sheet 7, Scotland. 
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. 
Lapworth, C, 1882. The Girvan Succession. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 38, 537-666. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S007