The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Dartry Limestone Formation

Stratotypes:
Computer Code:	DARL	Preferred Map Code:	DARL
Status Code:	Full
Age range:	Asbian Substage (CR) — Asbian Substage (CR)
Lithological Description:	Limestone, dark grey, argillaceous, sparsely fossiliferous with disseminated chert in tabular or nodular form; interbedded with thin, dark grey to black silty, micaceous shale.
Definition of Lower Boundary:	Conformable and abrupt, planar or interdigitating with Glencar Limestone Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary:	Disconformable with succeeding Meenymore Formation, locally erosional.
Thickness:	Up to 350 m.
Geographical Limits:	Northwest Carboniferous basin of Ireland.
Parent Unit:	Tyrone Group (TYRO)
Previous Name(s):	Upper Limestone (ULE) Upper Limestone (ULE)
Alternative Name(s):	none recorded or not applicable
Type Area	Extensively exposed on higher ground, major scarp-forming limestone and the central plateau of the Benbulben Range and Dartry Mountains, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Centred on Grid Square C 17 18.
Reference(s):
Brunton, C H C, and Mason, T R. 1979. Palaeoenvironments and correlation of the Carboniferous rocks in west Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), Vol. 32, 91-108.
Oswald, D H, 1955. The Carboniferous rocks between the Ox Mountains and Donegal Bay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol.111, Part 2, 167-186.
Waters, C N, Gillespie, M R, Smith, K, Auton, C A, Floyd, J D, Leslie, A G, Millward, D, Mitchell, W I, McMillan, A A, Stone, P, Barron, A J M, Dean, M T, Hopson, P M, Krabbendam, M, Browne, M A E, Stephenson, D, Akhurst, M C, and Barnes, R P. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Northern Britain. (British Geological Survey.)
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
N32

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