The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Burn of Benholm Peat Bed

Computer Code: BBP Preferred Map Code: BP
Status Code: Full
Age range: Devensian Stage (QD) — Devensian Stage (QD)
Lithological Description: Silty peat and organic silt, as lenses and rafts preserved between red-brown till and grey shelly clay.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Tectonic contact with grey shelly clay of Benholm Clay Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Tectonic contact with Mill of Forest Till Formation.
Thickness: 0.15 m.
Geographical Limits: NO 7943 6914 to NO 7943 6915. Burn of Benholm site.
Parent Unit: Moy Burn Palaeosol Formation (MBP)
Previous Name(s): Burn of Benholm Peat Member [Obsolete Name and Code: Use BBP] (-2579)
Burn of Benholm Peat [Obsolete Name and Code: Use BBP] (-4443)
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
Type Section  British Geological Survey Trial Pit (BBP4). British Geological Survey Registered No. NO76NE/4 - Burn of Benholm area. 
Reference Section  Stream section of Burn of Benholm; locality F of Campbell (1934). 
Reference(s):
Auton, C A, Gordon, J E, Merritt, J W, and Walker, M J C. 2000. The glacial and interstadial sediments at the Burn of Benholm, Kincardineshire: evidence for onshore pre-Devensian ice movement in northeast Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science. Vol. 15, 141-156. 
Donner, J J. 1960. Pollen analysis of the Burn of Benholm peat-bed, Kincardineshire, Scotland. Societas Scientarum Fennica, Commentationes Biologicae, Vol.22, 1-13. 
Donner, J J. 1979. The Early or Middle Devensian peat at Burn of Benholm, Kincardineshire. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol.15, 247-250. 
Merritt, J W, Auton, C A, Connell, E R, Hall, A M and Peacock, J D. 2003. The Cainozoic geology and landscape evolution of north-east Scotland. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 66E, 67, 76E, 77, 86E, 87W, 87E, 95, 96W, 96E and 97 (Scotland) 
Campbell, R, 1934. On the occurrence of Shelly Boulder Clay and interglacial deposits in Kincardineshire. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, Vol.13, 176-183. 
McMillan, A A, Hamblin, R J O, and Merritt, J W. 2011. A lithostratigraphical framework for onshore Quaternary and Neogene (Tertiary) superficial deposits of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. British Geological Survey Research Report, RR/10/03. 343pp. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S067