| Computer Code: |
GNKY |
Preferred Map Code: |
KY |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Ordovician Period (O)
— Ordovician Period (O) |
| Lithological Description: |
Weakly foliated granite, granodiorite and tonalite, pale cream, medium- to coarse-grained. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
N/A |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
N/A |
| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
Central Highlands, Glen Kyllachy Forest. Mainly in limited ovoid area some 4km x 2km centred on Glen Kyllachy. |
| Parent Unit: |
Scottish Highland Ordovician Minor Intrusion Suite (HOMI)
|
| Previous Name(s): |
Glen Kyllachy Granite [Obsolete Name and Code: Use GNKY]
(-2829)
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Section |
Scattered outcrops at NW end of Glen Kyllachy either side of track. Contact zone of fine-grained and porphyritic facies with schlieren of local metasedimentary rocks. |
| Reference Section |
Section in part of Glen Kyllachy [at base of ravine]. |
| Reference(s): |
| Smith, M,1995. Geology of the area between Strathmain and Glen Mazeran, Tomatin district. 1:10000 sheets 62NE and 62SE, British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/95/44. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
|
S074
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