| Computer Code: |
SMBS |
Preferred Map Code: |
SMBS |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Llandovery Epoch (SL)
— Sheinwoodian Age (SS) |
| Lithological Description: |
Dark grey, homogeneous siltstones, silty mudstones and shales, very weakly bedded. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Faulted |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
The base of the overlying Ree Burn Formation. |
| Thickness: |
>122m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Lower Palaeozoic Inlier of the Hagshaw Hills, Scotland. (50k sheets 23E, 23W and 15W). |
| Parent Unit: |
Hagshaw Group (HGW)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Smithy Burn section. 250m upstream from junction with the Podowrin Burn. |
| Reference Section |
Windrow Burn, 1.9km northwest of Hazelside Farm. |
| Reference(s): |
| Rolfe, W D I, 1961. The Geology of the Hagshaw Hills Silurian Inlier, Lanarkshire. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, Vol.18, Part 3, 240-269. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S023
S023
S015
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