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A lithostratigraphical framework fo
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The National Grid and other ordnanc
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Foreword This report is the publish
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Contents Foreword iii Acknowledgeme
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summary The stratigraphy Committee
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1 introduction The Carboniferous st
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58°N 54°N Longford Down High 0 IR
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2 Correlation and biostratigraphica
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Ayrshire Mochrihanish Arran Sanquha
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Table 3 summary of the chronostrati
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3 lithostratigraphical framework Th
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canic formations), in the Namurian
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Volcanic rock lithofacies Coal Meas
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dalbeattie, where it crops out narr
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farms and east of whitehill Farm [N
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Thickness some 86 m. However, BGs (
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in Fife, the Fife Ness, Anstruther,
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Lithology olivine-microphyric basal
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Lithology macroporphyritic mafic ba
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4.3.3.11 Ferenze lava MeMBer Name p
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Stratotype The type area is the dun
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4.3.3.23 saugHen Braes lava MeMBer
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Lithology mainly olivine-microphyri
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1996). A reference section, 50 m th
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variation but clinopyroxene is gene
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Thickness Nearly 30 m in the vicini
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[Ns 691 808] east to the south flan
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mostly crop out: in an outlier on t
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Distribution and regional correlati
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Stratotype The type area is in the
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eference section is in crags formin
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on the underlying plagioclase-micro
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Stratotype partial type sections we
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Cuniger Rock marine Band above the
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Lower and upper boundaries The base
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Lower and upper boundaries The base
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4.4.1 Salsburgh Volcanic Formation
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including almost all limestones and
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interbedded sandstone and coal-bear
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to bauxitic clay. This boundary is
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(see Trueman and weir, 1946; Calver
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Genetic interpretation The marked l
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unconformable beneath beds of red s
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6 Carboniferous rocks of the Northe
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Groups and main lithofacies Groups
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Age mid Tournaisian (Courceyan) 6.3
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Thickness The ‘cementstone’ fac
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18 INGLETON COALFIELD 15 16 ALSTON
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INVERCLYDE GROUP 1 N 1 ORROLAND AND
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‘Ravenstonedale limestone’ in t
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The upper boundary of the formation
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PENNINE COAL MEASURES GP BORDER GRO
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etween 120 and 150 m of strata, com
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Genetic interpretation marine platf
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Page 157 and 158: References most of the references l
Page 159 and 160: monazite. 137-159 in Developments i
Page 161: HaMPson, g J. 1997. A sequence stra
Page 165 and 166: wHyTe, F, and MaCDonalD, J g. 1974.
Page 167 and 168: Supergroup Group Formation Frizingt
Page 169 and 170: Supergroup Group Formation Member N
Page 171 and 172: Appendix 2 BGs lexicon of Named Roc
Page 173 and 174: Appendix 3 Alphabetical listing of
Page 175 and 176: Kilbarchan lavas Kilbarchan lava me
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