| Computer Code: |
CGPS |
Preferred Map Code: |
symb |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Neoproterozoic Era (AZ)
— Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) |
| Lithological Description: |
Schistose psammite and gritty psammite with minor units of phyllitic to schistose pelite. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Boundary placed arbitrarily at base of thick green bed unit that separates the dominantly psammitic Cairn Gibbs Formation from the underlying more varied Mount Blair Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Not seen in Glen Shee district. |
| Thickness: |
Not known. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Eastern boundary of Sheet 56W (Glen Shee) west to Strath Ardle. |
| Parent Unit: |
Southern Highland Group (SOHI)
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| Previous Name(s): |
Southern Highland Group (Undivided) [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CGPS, MBPS]
(-1424)
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| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Black Water from 200m south-east (downstream) of Stone Bridge, upstream to Ashmore House. |
| Type Area |
Lindalla - Gallow Hill - Loch Shandra area. |
| Reference(s): |
| Crane, A, Goodman, S, Krabbendam, M K, Leslie, A G, Paterson, I B, Robertson, S and Rollin, K, 1996. Geology of the Glen Shee district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 56W and adjacent areas (Scotland). |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S056
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