| Computer Code: |
BSSK |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Callovian Age (JC)
— Callovian Age (JC) |
| Lithological Description: |
Siltstones and sandstones with a diverse bivalve fauna, belemnites and rare ammonites. A plesiosaur has also been found. The sandstones are commonly bioturbated, with local, small-scale cross-bedding and flaser bedding. One interpretation of the Member is that it was a migrating offshore sand bar, transgressing over the coastal lagoons described by 'Upper Ostrea Member'. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Marine siltstones and sandstones replace the marine-brackish mudstones of the Upper Ostrea Member. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Sharp boundary, overlain by bituminous fissile mudstones of the Dunans Shale Member. |
| Thickness: |
5m |
| Geographical Limits: |
Sea of the Hebrides Basin. |
| Parent Unit: |
Staffin Bay Formation (STBA)
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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 |
Staffin Bay, Trotternish, northern Skye. Morton and Hudson, 1995. |
| Reference(s): |
| Morton, N and Hudson, J D, 1995. Field Guide to the Jurassic of the Isles of Raasay and Skye, Inner Hebrides, north-west Scotland. In: Taylor, P D (editor), Field Geology of the British Jurassic. Geological Society of London, 209-280. |
| Cox, B M, Page, K N, and Morton, N. 2002. The Middle Jurassic stratigraphy of Scotland. In Cox, B M, and Sumbler, M G (editors), British Middle Jurassic Stratigraphy. Geological Conservation Review Series, Vol.26. (Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee/Chapman and Hall.) |
| Hudson, J D, and Trewin, N H. 2002. Jurassic. 323-350 in The geology of Scotland. Trewin, N H (editor). (London: Geological Society of London.) |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S080
S090
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