Lealt Shale (Redirected from Lealt Shale Formation)
Lealt Shale Formation Stratigraphic range: Bathonian | |
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Thinly bedded limestones of the Lealt Shale formation overlain by Paleogene lava | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Great Estuarine Group |
Sub-units | Kildonnan Member, Lonfearn Member |
Underlies | Valtos Sandstone Formation |
Overlies | Elgol Sandstone Formation |
Thickness | Between 45 and 50 m |
Lithology | |
Primary | Mudstone |
Other | Limestone |
Location | |
Region | Europe |
Country | Scotland |
Extent | Inner Hebrides |
Type section | |
Named for | Lealt, Skye |
Named by | Harris and Hudson |
Location | Cliffs east of Lonfearn (partial), Coastal exposure 2.5 km north of Kildonnan, Eigg (partial) |
Year defined | 1980 |
Thickness at type section | Lonfearn: 26 to 30 m (partial) Kildonnan: 23 m (partial) |
The Lealt Shale Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Scotland. Fossil ornithopod tracks and a theropod dinosaur tooth have been reported from the formation.[1][2] The lithology consists of silty fissile mudstones with subordinate thin limestones.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ Young, Chloe M. E.; Hendrickx, Christophe; Challands, Thomas J.; Foffa, Davide; Ross, Dugald A.; Butler, Ian B.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (May 2019). "New theropod dinosaur teeth from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland". Scottish Journal of Geology. 55 (1): 7–19. doi:10.1144/sjg2018-020. ISSN 0036-9276.
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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