The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Graveland Quartzite Member

Computer Code: GRLM Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Full
Age range: Tonian Period (AT) — Tonian Period (AT)
Lithological Description: Quartzite, psammite, schistose pelite, interbedded. Pelite with staurolite and kyanite.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Occurs within the Yell Sound Psammite Formation.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Occurs within the Yell Sound Psammite Formation.
Thickness: Unknown: strongly deformed.
Geographical Limits: Shetland: Yell, Mainland; east of the Walls Boundary Fault.
Parent Unit: Yell Sound Psammite Formation (YSPS)
Previous Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Alternative Name(s): none recorded or not applicable
Stratotypes:
none recorded or not applicable
Reference(s):
Krabbendam, M. 2021. A stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of the Northern Highlands of Scotland. UK Stratigraphic Framework Series. British Geological Survey Open Report, OR/21/072. 86pp. 
Flinn, D, 1994. Geology of Yell and some neighbouring islands in Shetland. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 130 (Scotland). 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
none recorded or not applicable