The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details

Westing Group

Computer Code: WEGP Preferred Map Code: notEntered
Status Code: Full
Age range: Tonian Period (AT) — Tonian Period (AT)
Lithological Description: Psammite, pelite, calc-silicate rock; variably gneissose.
Definition of Lower Boundary: Not exposed; unknown.
Definition of Upper Boundary: Overlain by Valla Field Group (Dalradian), with ?sheared unconformity.
Thickness: none recorded or not applicable
Geographical Limits: NE Shetland: Unst, Fetlar, Linga.
Parent Unit: Wester Ross Supergroup (WROS)
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. 2014. Geology of Unst, Fetlar and adjacent islands. Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheets 131 and part of 130, Scotland. 
Cutts, K A, Hand, M, Kelsey, D E, Wade, B, Strachan, R A, Clark, C, and Netting, A. 2009. Evidence for 930 Ma metamorphism in the Shetland Islands, Scottish Caledonides: implications for Neoproterozoic tectonics in the Laurentia-Baltica sector of Rodinia. Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 166, 1033-1047. 
1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used:
S131