| Computer Code: |
GAPC |
Preferred Map Code: |
GAPC |
| Status Code: |
Pending Upgrade |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
Boulder, cobble and pebble conglomerates with pebbly coarse-grained greywackes. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Limits are defined by the presence of pebbles, cobbles or boulders. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Limits are defined by the presence of pebbles, cobbles or boulders. |
| Thickness: |
~2200 metres - 0 metres. |
| Geographical Limits: |
Not defined. |
| Parent Unit: |
Corsewall Formation (CLG)
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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 |
Sheet S007E. |
| Reference(s): |
| Walton, J, 1956. Glen More, Cairngorms (2nd Edition). Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, National Forest Park Guides, Vol.XXII, p.133-151. |
| Floyd, J D, 1996. Lithostratigraphy of the Ordovician rocks in the Southern Uplands: Crawford Group, Moffat Shale Group, Leadhills Supergroup. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Vol.86, 153-165. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
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S007
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