Computer Code: |
CBHS |
Preferred Map Code: |
CBHS |
Status Code: |
Full |
Age range: |
Cambrian Period (E)
— Ordovician Period (O) |
Lithological Description: |
Amphibolite, fine-grained, strongly schistose with a dark to pale green banded appearance on the centimetre scale, with striped chlorite albite schists at structural top. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Not seen; faulted contact with Bolfrishlie Slate Formation. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Tectonic contact (faulted) with Lime Hill Serpentinite. |
Thickness: |
Maximum 150m (estimated), possibly tectonic. |
Geographical Limits: |
none recorded or not applicable
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Parent Unit: |
Highland Border Complex (HBX)
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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: |
Reference Section |
Large quarry on southwest side of hilloch, 250m north-west of Maol Ruadh, Loch Ard Forest. |
Partial Type Section |
Corrie Burn, Loch Ard Forest, Aberfoyle. |
Reference(s): |
none recorded or not applicable |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
S038
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