The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Blaeberry Formation

Computer Code: BBB Preferred Map Code: BBB
Status Code: Full
Age range: Wenlock Epoch (SW) — Wenlock Epoch (SW)
Lithological Description: Dark greenish grey mudstone and silty mudstone, rusty weathering.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Transition from grey mudstones and silty mudstones of Kip Burn Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Transition to greenish grey sandstones and mudstones of Dunside Formation.
Thickness: 130m.
Geographical Limits: Muirkirk to Strathaven, Strathclyde region, Central Scotland.
Parent Unit: Priesthill Group [Cf Hagshaw Group] (PRH)
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Section  Exposures along Blaeberry Burn. 
Reference(s):
Jennings, J S. Not published. The geology of the eastern part of the Lesmahagow Inlier. Ph.D.Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1961. 
Walton, E K, 1965. "In" Craig, G Y, (Editor). The Geology of Scotland: Lower Palaeozoic rocks. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 161-227. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S023