The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Carmichael Burn Formation
Computer Code: | CMBN | Preferred Map Code: | CMBN |
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Status Code: | Full | ||
Age range: | Llandovery Epoch (SL) — Llandovery Epoch (SL) | ||
Lithological Description: | Pale greyish olive, greenish grey and greyish red mudstones and thin beds of olive-grey and purplish siltstones, locally containing marine fossils. One interbedded unit of greyish orange to greyish red quartose sandstone. | ||
Definition of Lower Boundary: | Faulted out by the Carmichael Fault. | ||
Definition of Upper Boundary: | Top of the predominantly mudstone succession of the Carmichael Burn Formation below the fairly sharp incoming of the Fence Conglomerate Member of the Westgate Formation | ||
Thickness: | c.168m | ||
Geographical Limits: | Carmichael Inlier, Lanarkshire, Scotland. | ||
Parent Unit: | Carmichael Group (CARM) | ||
Previous Name(s): | Burn Bridge Arenite [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CMBN]
(-3946)
Crossridge Formation [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CMBN] (-3947) Carmichael Burn Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CARM, CMBN] (-4515) Manse Mudstone [Obsolete Name and Code: Use CMBN] (-141) |
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Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
Stratotypes: | |||
Partial Type Section | Exposures along the Carmichael Burn between 320 and 150m south of Carmichael Manse. Rolfe, 1960 | ||
Reference(s): | |||
Phillips E R, Barron, H F, Smith, R A, and Arkley, S. 2004. Composition and provenance of the Silurian to Devonian sandstone sequences of the southern Midland Valley. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2004). | |||
Rolfe, W D I, 1960. The Silurian inlier of Carmichael, Lanarkshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol.64, 245-260 | |||
Walton, E K. 1983. Lower Palaeozoic - Stratigraphy. In Craig, G Y (editor), Geology of Scotland (2nd edition)(Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.) | |||
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
S023 S023 |