| Computer Code: |
UPOR |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Full |
| Age range: |
Late Devonian Epoch (DU)
— Courceyan Substage (CF) |
| Lithological Description: |
Mainly fluvial, terrestrial sediments of Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
The group rests conformably on Givetian to early Frasnian marine beds (Kyle Group) near the international median line (Cameron 1993), and possibly also in northern Quadrant 44 (Cameron et al. 1992). Elsewhere, it is likely to rest on deformed Lower Paleozoic strata. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
The Upper Old Red Group generally underlies Permian or younger strata, but is conformably overlain by the Cementstone Formation along the southern flank of the Mid North Sea High. |
| Thickness: |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Geographical Limits: |
The Upper Old Red Group extends eastwards from the coast of southeast Scotland along the crest and southern flank of the Mid North Sea High; its distribution farther south is unknown. |
| Parent Unit: |
Not Applicable (-)
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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: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| Reference(s): |
| Cameron, T D J, Crosby, A, Balson, P S, Jeffery, D H, Lott, G K, Bulat, J, and Harrison, D J. 1992. United Kingdom offshore regional report: the geology of the southern North Sea. (London: HMSO for the British Geological Survey.) |
| Cameron, T D J. 1993. 4. Triassic, Permian and pre-Permian of the Central and Northern North Sea. In: Knox, R W O'B and Cordey, W G (eds.) Lithostratigraphic nomenclature of the UK North Sea. British Geological Survey, Nottingham. |
| 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.) |
| Waters, C N, Smith, K, Hopson, P M, Wilson, D, Bridge, D M, Carney, J N, Cooper, A H, Crofts, R G, Ellison, R A, Mathers, S J, Moorlock, B S P, Scrivener, R C, McMillan, A A, Ambrose, K, Barclay, W J, and Barron, A J M. 2007. Stratigraphical Chart of the United Kingdom: Southern Britain. British Geological Survey, 1 poster. |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
