| Computer Code: |
COW |
Preferred Map Code: |
COW |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Llandovery Epoch (SL)
— Llandovery Epoch (SL) |
| Lithological Description: |
Quartzitic micro-conglomerate, grit and sandstone. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
The basal member of the Scart Grits Formation, conformable on locally eroded shales of the underlying Woodland Formation. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Conformably overlain by the undivided part of the Scart Grits Formation. |
| Thickness: |
From 14 to 24 m thick. |
| Geographical Limits: |
The Girvan area of south-west Scotland. |
| Parent Unit: |
Scart Grits Formation (SCA)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Quartz Conglomerate [Obsolete Name And Code: Use COW]
(QZC)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Coast section at Cow Rock, 2 km south-west of Girvan. Cocks and Toghill, 1973. |
| Reference(s): |
| Ingham, J K. 1992. Excursion 30: Girvan Foreshore. 396-416 in Lawson, J D and Weedon, D S (editors), Geological Excursions around Glasgow and Girvan. Geological Society of Glasgow. |
| Cameron, I B, Stone, P and Smellie, J, 1986. Geology of the Country around Girvan. Explanation of 1:50 000 sheet. British Geological Survey, Sheet 7, Scotland. |
| Floyd, J D and Williams, M. 2003. A revised correlation of Silurian rocks in the Girvan district, SW Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol. 93 (for 2002), 383-92. |
| Lapworth, C, 1882. The Girvan Succession. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 38, 537-666. |
| Cocks, L R M and Toghill, P, 1973. The biostratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Girvan District, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 129, 209-243. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
