| Computer Code: |
TSCL |
Preferred Map Code: |
TC |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Devensian Stage (QD)
— Devensian Stage (QD) |
| Lithological Description: |
Silt and clay, reddish brown and olive-brown, mainly massive, but with some laminae of sand. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Sharp, draped, undulating, unconformable contact with underlying massive, gravelly, silty, sandy, clay diamicton of the Hatton Till Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
The present ground surface, or gradational, conformable contact with younger alluvial deposits, but not capped by till as are parts of the parent Formation. |
| Thickness: |
30m |
| Geographical Limits: |
The coast between Newburgh and Aberdeen on 1:50K Sheet 77. |
| Parent Unit: |
Ugie Clay Formation (UGCL)
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| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Sections at the former Brick and Tile works at Tipperty, 3.5km northwest of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire. Bremner, 1943; Munro, 1986. |
| Reference Section |
Degraded cliff section at Nigg Bay, Aberdeen. Merritt et al., 2003. |
| Reference(s): |
| Bremner, A. 1943. The glacial epoch in the north-east. 10-30 in The Book of Buchan (Jubilee Volume). Tocher, J F (editor). (Aberdeen: P Scrogie Ltd and Aberdeen University Press.) |
| Munro, M, 1986. Geology of the country around Aberdeen. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 77 (Scotland). |
| Merritt, J W, Auton, C A, Connell, E R, Hall, A M and Peacock, J D. 2003. The Cainozoic geology and landscape evolution of north-east Scotland. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 66E, 67, 76E, 77, 86E, 87W, 87E, 95, 96W, 96E and 97 (Scotland) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S077
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