The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Braemore Lodge Sandstone Member

Computer Code: BLSS Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Full
Age range: Emsian Age (DE) — Emsian Age (DE)
Lithological Description: Sandstone, flaggy, red, purple or green.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Unconformable contact onto crystalline basement rocks or conformable contact onto the Langwell Conglomerate Member of the Ousdale Arkose Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Conformable with the base of the Braemore Mudstone Formation.
Thickness: To 150m
Geographical Limits: Scotland Sheet 109E (Western part of Berridale outlier only known at present) may extend onto Sheets 103W Golspie, 103E Helmsdale and 110 Latheron.
Parent Unit: Ousdale Arkose Formation (OA)
Previous Name(s): Braemore Sandstone Formation [Obsolete Name And Code, Use: OA] (BRSS)
Braemore Sandstones (-66)
Alternative Name(s): Sarclet Sandstone
Stratotypes:
Type Area  Exposures in the bed of the Berriedale Water River, 0.5km upstream (northwest) of Braemore Lodge, 10km east (inland) of Dunbeath. Read, 1931, pp200-201. 
Reference(s):
Crampton, C B and Carruthers, R G, 1914. The geology of Caithness. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Scotland. Sheets 110 and 116 (Scotland). 
Read, H H, 1931. The geology of Central Sutherland. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Scotland, sheets 108 and 109. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S109