The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Saugh Hill Grits Formation

Stratotypes:
Computer Code:	SHSG	Preferred Map Code:	SHSG
Status Code:	Full
Age range:	Llandovery Epoch (SL) — Llandovery Epoch (SL)
Lithological Description:	Grey-green, thickly bedded, gritty sandstone and shale.
Definition of Lower Boundary:	Conformably overlies the Tralorg Shale Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary:	Conformably overlain by the Pencleuch Shale Formation.
Thickness:	180 - 365 m thick.
Geographical Limits:	Girvan area, south-west Scotland.
Parent Unit:	Newlands Subgroup (NEWL)
Previous Name(s):	Saugh Hill Formation [Obsolete Name And Code: Use SHSG] (SHLF) Saugh Hill Grits [Obsolete Name And Code: Use SHSG] (SHLG) Saugh Hill Sandstones and Grits [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SHSG] (-4324)
Alternative Name(s):	none recorded or not applicable
Type Section	Penwhapple Burn
Reference(s):
Lapworth, C, 1882. The Girvan Succession. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 38, 537-666.
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.
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.
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S008