Computer Code: |
FIG |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
Status Code: |
Full, pending ratification |
Age range: |
Eifelian Age (DI)
— Givetian Age (DV) |
Lithological Description: |
Coarse conglomerate with a seam of red clay containing fossil fish. |
Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Drawn at the base of the Findon Group where conglomerate rests conformably upon marl of the Crovie Group. |
Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Drawn at the conformable upward passage of the Findon Group from conglomerate and breccia overlain by superficial deposits. |
Thickness: |
24 metres. |
Geographical Limits: |
Gamrie parish, Grampian region. |
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 |
Den of Findon in Gamrie Parish, Grampian region. |
Reference(s): |
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: |
none recorded or not applicable |