| Computer Code: |
TBE |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Tonian Period (AT)
— Tonian Period (AT) |
| Lithological Description: |
Conglomerate at base; green-grey sandstone with epidote, cross-bedded; increasing siltstone towards top of formation. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformable upon Lewisian Gneiss (L) (sheared and overturned). |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Conformably overlain by Loch na Dal formation (TBLN). Incoming of interbedded sandstone-mudstone. |
| Thickness: |
Variable, maximum c. 270 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Northwest Scotland: Isle of Skye: Sleat. |
| Parent Unit: |
Sleat Group (TB)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Epidotic Grit Formation
(-561)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Coastal section at Rubha Guail, Sleat, Skye [NG 722 150 - NG 728 159]. |
| Reference(s): |
| Stewart, A D. 2002. The later Proterozoic Torridonian rocks of Scotland: their sedimentology, geochemistry and origin. Geological Society Memoir. Vol. 24. (The Geological Society.) |
| Krabbendam, M, Bonsor, H, Horstwood, M S, and Rivers, T. 2017. Tracking the evolution of the Grenvillian foreland basin: Constraints from sedimentology and detrital zircon and rutile in the Sleat and Torridon groups, Scotland. Precambrian Research, Vol. 295, 67-89. |
| Krabbendam, M. 2021. A stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of the Northern Highlands of Scotland. UK Stratigraphic Framework Series. British Geological Survey Open Report, OR/21/072. 86pp. |
| Johnston, G S and Mykura, W. 1989. British regional geology: the Northern Highlands (4th edition) (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S071
S061
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