The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
White Hill Sandstone Formation
| Computer Code: | WHIL | Preferred Map Code: | WHIL |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Early Devonian Epoch (DL) — Early Devonian Epoch (DL) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Red sandstone and mudstones with local beds of conglomerate containing clasts of red sandstone and volcanic rock. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | The unconformity with the folded Wenlock strata of the Riccarton Group of the Southern Upland Terrane. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | The top of red clastic sedimentary rocks below the Cheviot Volcanic Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | From 0 m to 30 m thick. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Jedburgh and the Cheviot Hills. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Reston Group (REST) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Lower Old Red Sandstone Group
(LORS)
White Hill Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use WHIL] (-4398) Lower Old Red Sandstone Group (LORS) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Partial Type Section | Shaw Burn, 300 m south-west of White Hill, about 11 km south of Jedburgh. Browne, M A E et al., 2000. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| 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. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S017 | |||