| Computer Code: |
WEM |
Preferred Map Code: |
WEM |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Late Devonian Epoch (DU)
— Late Devonian Epoch (DU) |
| Lithological Description: |
Cross-bedded, fine-grained red-brown sandstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Base not seen. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Disconformably succeeded by the Skelmorlie Conglomerate Formation. |
| Thickness: |
About 50 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
The Wemyss Bay area, Sheet 29. |
| Parent Unit: |
Stratheden Group (SAG)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Wemyss Bay Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use WEM]
(-3125)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Coast at Wemyss Bay, Sheet 29E, Dunoon. |
| Reference(s): |
| Bluck, B J. 1978. Sedimentation in a late orogenic basin; the Old Red Sandstone of the Midland Valley of Scotland. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Memoirs No. 12. |
| Paterson, I B and Hall, I H S. 1986. Lithostratigraphy of the late Devonian and early Carboniferous rocks in the Midland Valley of Scotland. British Geological Survey Report, 18/3. |
| Waters, C N, Gillespie, M R, Smith, K, Auton, C A, Floyd, J D, Leslie, A G, Millward, D, Mitchell, W I, McMillan, A A, Stone, P, Barron, A J M, Dean, M T, Hopson, P M, Krabbendam, M, Browne, M A E, Stephenson, D, Akhurst, M C, and Barnes, R P. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Northern Britain. (British Geological Survey.) |
| Browne, M A E, Smith, R A, and Aitken, A M. 2002. Stratigraphical framework for the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks of Scotland south of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen. British Geological Survey Research Report RR/01/04. 67 pp. |
| Paterson, I B, Hall, I H S and Stephenson, D. 1990. Geology of the Greenock district: Memoir for 1:50000 geological sheet 30W and part of sheet 29E (Scotland). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S029
S030
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