The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Braemore Lodge Sandstone Member
Computer Code: | BLSS | Preferred Map Code: | notEntered |
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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) |
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Alternative Name(s): | Sarclet Sandstone |
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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 |