The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Gala Unit 2

Computer Code: GAL2 Preferred Map Code: GALA2
Status Code: Full
Age range: Rhuddanian Age (SR) — Rhuddanian Age (SR)
Lithological Description: Graded beds that may include wacke sandstone, siltstone and mudstone in variable proportion, interpreted as turbidites. Rare interbedded mudstones have yielded fauna of the acuminatus Biozone.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Southern faulted boundary: Sandhead Fault. Stratigraphical lower boundary with underlying Moffat Shale Group (of Ordovician to Silurian age).
Definition of Upper Boundary: Northern faulted boundary Luce Bay to New Galloway: Stair Haven Fault. East of New Galloway: Orlock Bridge Fault.
Thickness: c. 1000m of near vertical strata
Geographical Limits: Mapped from the Sandhead on the Rhins of Galloway (Sheet 1/3) to Peebleshire (Sheet 24E). Correlation with Central Belt turbidites of Llandovery age in the Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland.
Parent Unit: Gala Group (GALA)
Previous Name(s): Gala Group (GALA)
Queensberry Grits [Obsolete Name and Code: Use GDE, GALA, GAL1, GAL2, GAL3, GAL4, GAL5, GAL6, GAL7, GAL8] (-1552)
Pyroxenous Greywacke Group [Obsolete Name and Code: Use GAL2] (-1553)
Gala Group (GALA)
Alternative Name(s): Mindork Formation
Stratotypes:
Reference Section  Mindork Fell, 3 km SSW of Kirkcowan. Barnes, in prep. 
Reference(s):
Barnes, R P, Anderson, T B and McCurry, J A . 1987. Along-strike variation in the stratigraphical and structural profile of the Southern Uplands Central Belt in Galloway and Longford Down. Journal of the Geological Society, 144, 807 - 816. 
McMillan, A A. 2002. Geology of the New Galloway and Thornhill District. 2002. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Sheets 9W and 9E (Scotland). 
Barnes, R P, (in prep). The geology of the Kirkcowan, Wigtown and Whithorn districts. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 4W, 4E and 2 (Scotland). 
Lapworth, C, 1871. On the Lower Silurian rocks in the neighbourhood of Galashiels. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 2, 46 - 58. 
Stone, P, 1995. Geology of the Rhins of Galloway district. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 1 & 3 (Scotland). 
Peach, B N and Horne, J. 1899. The Silurian Rocks of Britain, Volume 1. Scotland. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. 
Walton, E K. 1955. Silurian greywackes in Peeblesshire. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, B65, 327-357. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S001 S003 S004 S004 S009 S009 S016 S024 S024 N29 S015