The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Glen Member

Computer Code: GLE Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Pending Upgrade
Age range: Asbian Substage (CR) — Asbian Substage (CR)
Lithological Description: Grey-buff coloured gritty-coarse grained compact sandstone interbedded with thin horizons of mudflake breccia containing fragments of shale and laminate micrite from underlying Meenymor Formation.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Abrupt changes at top and bottom of member to interbedded shale and micrites of Meenymore Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Abrupt changes at top and bottom of member to interbedded shale and micrites of Meenymore Formation.
Thickness: c 20 metres (estimated).
Geographical Limits: Not defined.
Parent Unit: Meenymore Formation (MEF)
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
none recorded or not applicable
Reference(s):
none recorded or not applicable
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
none recorded or not applicable