The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Whitehills Glacigenic Formation
| Computer Code: | WHGL | Preferred Map Code: | WGL |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Devensian Stage (QD) — Devensian Stage (QD) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Dark blue-grey clayey till with erratics and rafts of Mesozoic strata, pre-Late Devensian glaciomarine shelly mud, shell fragments and rafts of sand and clay. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | On bedrock or overlying the Pishlinn Burn Gravel Bed. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | At the surface or overlain by the Crovie Till Formation (East Grampian Glacigenic Subgroup) or the Kirk Burn Silt Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | 20m | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Elgin to Ellon. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Banffshire Coast and Caithness Glacigenic Subgroup (BCD) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Shelly Boulder Clay [Obsolete Name and Code: Use FOTI, WHGL]
(-258)
Boulder clay with Jurassic fossils [Obsolete Name and Code: Use WHGL] (-3127) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Reference Section | Cliff sections at Castle Hill, Gardenstown. | ||
| Type Section | Boyne Limestone Quarry. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Peacock, J D and Merritt, J W. 1997. Glaciotectonic rafting at Castle Hill, Gardenstown and its significance for the glacial history of northern Banffshire, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science. Vol.12 283-294. | |||
| Peacock, J D, 1966. Note on the drift sequence near Portsoy, Banffshire. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.2, 35-37. | |||
| Peacock, J D, 1971. A re-interpretation of the Coastal Deposits of Banffshire and their place in the Late-Glacial history of north-east Scotland. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, No.37, 81-89. | |||
| 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) | |||
| Peacock, J D and Merritt, J W. 2000. Glacial deposits at the Boyne Bay Limestone Quarry, Portsoy and their place in the late Pleistocene history of northeast Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science. Vol.15, 543-555. | |||
| Read, H H, 1923. Geology of the country around Banff, Huntly and Turriff, Lower Banffshire and north-west Aberdeenshire. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Scotland Sheets 86 and 96 (Scotland). | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S096 S096 | |||