The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Tulaichean Schist Formation
| Computer Code: | TUSC | Preferred Map Code: | symb |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) — Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Schistose semipelite to psammite, garnetiferous, with graded bedding. Some layers and lenses of calcareous schists, calcsilicate rocks and quartzite. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Top of Sron nan Dias Pelite and Limestone Formation. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Top of dominantly semipelitic rocks below the dominantly calcareous and graphitic rocks of the overlying Gleann Beag Schist Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | Not known | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Glen Shee district: north-west part of Sheet 56W, south-west part of Sheet 65W, south-east part of Sheet 64E and north-east part of Sheet 55E. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Blair Atholl Subgroup (DABA) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Crinan Subgroup Caenlochan Schist [Obsolete Name and Code: Use TUSC]
(-2503)
Lochaber Subgroup Baddoch Burn Pelite [Obsolete Name and Code: Use TUSC] (-1243) Killiecrankie Schist [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DBKR, TUSC] (-3981) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | Loch Burn. | ||
| Type Area | Glas Tulaichean - Creag a Chaise - Carn an t'Sionnaich area. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Harris, A L, Haselock, P J, Kennedy, M J and Mendum, J R, 1994. The Dalradian Supergroup in Scotland, Shetland and Ireland. 33-53 in Gibbons, W E and Harris, A L (editors). A revised correlation of Precambrian rocks in the British Isles. Special Report of the Geological Society, London, No.22. | |||
| Crane, A, Goodman, S, Krabbendam, M K, Leslie, A G, Paterson, I B, Robertson, S and Rollin, K, 1996. Geology of the Glen Shee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 56W and adjacent areas (Scotland). | |||
| Bailey, E B. 1925. Perthshire tectonics: Loch Tummel, Blair Atholl and Glen Shee. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 53, 671-698. | |||
| Upton, P S. 1986. A structural cross-section of the Moine and Dalradian rocks of the Braemar area. Report of the British Geological Survey, Vol.17, No.1, 9-19. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S056 S065 S064 S055 | |||