The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Wall Hill Member
| Computer Code: | WLH | Preferred Map Code: | WLH |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Tournaisian Age (CT) — Tournaisian Age (CT) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Fining upwards cycles of light grey to white conglomerates and sandstones with thin purple siltstones, marls and shales. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Unconformable on Silurian turbidites. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Faulted. | ||
| Thickness: | 360m (maximum) | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Coastal outcrop between White Port (NX 7234 4336) and Port Mary (NX 7550 4540). | ||
| Parent Unit: | Ballagan Formation (BGN) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Wall Hill Sandstone Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use WLH]
(-3764)
Wall Hill Sandstone Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use WLH] (-3132) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | Coastal section between White Port and Port Mary. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Lintern, B C and Floyd, J D. 2000. Geology of the Kirkcudbright-Dalbeattie District. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 5W, 5E and part of 6W (Scotland). | |||
| Dean, M T, Browne, M A E, Waters, C N and Powell, J H. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for the Carboniferous successions of northern Great Britain (onshore). British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/007. 165pp. | |||
| Deegan, C E. 1973. Tectonic control of sedimentation at the margin of a Carboniferous depositional basin in Kirkcudbrightshire. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 9, p. 1 - 28. | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S005 | |||