| Computer Code: |
WING |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Miocene Epoch (NM)
— Quaternary Period (Q) |
| Lithological Description: |
Well rounded gravel composed of white quartzite and vein quartz in white, micaceous silty sand matrix. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Unconformable, on deeply weathered crystalline basement. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
It is present at ground surface or lies unconformably beneath till or head. |
| Thickness: |
At least 10 m. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Northeast Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Buchan Gravels Formation (BUG)
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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 |
Sand and gravel pit section near Cottown Fetterletter, 6.5 km westnorthwest of Methlick, and borehole NJ73NE/2. Merritt, 1981. |
| Reference(s): |
| McMillan, A A, Hamblin, R J O, and Merritt, J W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03. 343pp. |
| Merritt, J W. 1981. The sand and gravel resources of the country around Ellon, Grampian Region. Description of 1:25 000 resource sheet NJ93 with parts of NJ82, NJ83 and NJ92, NK03 and parts of NK02 and NK13. Mineral assessment Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 76. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S086
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