The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Sunnyside Psammite Member
| Computer Code: | SUNS | Preferred Map Code: | SunS |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) — Neoproterozoic Era (AZ) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Quartzite and feldspathic quartzite, medium- to thickly planar bedded, well-sorted, with tabular cross-bedding. | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Faulted against Dicky Hare Member on coast. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Sharp change to micaceous, schistose semipelite of West Sands Mica Schist Member of Findlater Flag Formation. | ||
| Thickness: | c.350m on coast section; appears to thicken slightly inland. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | From coast at Sunnyside Bay [NJ 5340 6765 - 5370 6740] as far as a line from the southeast side of Crannoch Hill [NJ 521 664] to [NJ 528 600], just north of the A98. | ||
| Parent Unit: | Cullen Quartzite Formation (CUQU) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Sunnyside Sandstone Member
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Sunnyside Feldspathic Psammites [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SUNS] (-2461) Logie Head Member [Obsolete Name and Code: Use SUNS] (-3700) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Section | On the coast from the west side of Sunnyside Bay to West Sands. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Stephenson, D and Gould, D. 1995. British Regional Geology: the Grampian Highlands (4th edition). (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey), 67-68. | |||
| Harris, A L, Haselock, P J, Kennedy, M J and Mendum, J R, 1994. The Dalradian Supergroup in Scotland, Shetland and Ireland. 33-53 in Gibbons, W E and Harris, A L (editors). A revised correlation of Precambrian rocks in the British Isles. Special Report of the Geological Society, London, No.22. | |||
| Stephenson, D, et al. 1993. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Dalradian rocks of the East Grampian Project area. British Geological Survey Technical Report WA/93/91. | |||
| Read, H H, 1923. Geology of the country around Banff, Huntly and Turriff, Lower Banffshire and north-west Aberdeenshire. Memoir of the Geological Survey, Scotland Sheets 86 and 96 (Scotland). | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S096 | |||