Computer Code: |
MSGR |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
Status Code: |
Full, pending ratification |
Age range: |
Mid Devonian Epoch (DM)
— Mid Devonian Epoch (DM) |
Lithological Description: |
Red grey and yellow sandstones sometimes lightly friable, and reddish marly clays; included on horizon of Silurian calcareous shale with fossils. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn at the base of the sandstone of the Millbuie Sandstone Group where it rests conformably upon conglomerate of Devonian age. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
The group is unconformably overlain by Pleistocene deposits. |
Thickness: |
900 metres approx. |
Geographical Limits: |
Millbuie Moor, Black Isle, Ross-shire. |
Parent Unit: |
Not Entered (?)
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Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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Stratotypes: |
Type Area |
Millbuie, Black Isle. |
Reference(s): |
Horne, J and Hinxman, L W and others, 1914. Beauly and Inverness. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Vol.62. |
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
none recorded or not applicable |