The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Tappins Group
| Computer Code: | TAP | Preferred Map Code: | TAP |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Abereiddian Stage (O2) — Caradoc Series (O4) | ||
| Lithological Description: | See constituent Formations: Marchburn, Corsewell, Dalreoch, Currarie, Traboyack, Downan Point Lava. Alternating greywackes and shales, red mudstones, sandstones, lava breccias and conglomerates. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Faulted (Glen App Fault). | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Faulted (Stinchar Fault). | ||
| Thickness: | Total of constituent formations is c.7000m | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Girvan area and Southern Uplands, south west Scotland. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Not Applicable (-) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Tappins Facies [Obsolete Name and Code: Use TAP]
(-3068)
Tappins Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use TAP] (-1218) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Partial Type Section | see constituent Formations | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Peach, B N and Horne, J. 1899. The Silurian Rocks of Britain, Volume 1. Scotland. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. | |||
| Floyd, J D and Kimbell, G S, 1995. Magnetic and tectonostratigraphic correlation at a terrane boundary: the Tappins Group of the Southern Uplands. Geological Magazine, 132, 515-21. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S007 S008 | |||