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Eday Group

Eday Group

Group in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK


The Eday Group is a Devonian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in Orkney, northern Scotland.[1] The name is derived from the island of Eday where the strata are exposed in coastal cliffs.[2]

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Outcrops

These rocks are exposed throughout Orkney, notably in coastal cliffs of Eday and western Sanday, South Ronaldsay and the Deerness peninsula of Mainland. There are spectacular exposures of the Hoy Sandstone Formation and particularly the Trowie Glen Sandstone Member in the precipitous cliffs of Hoy's west coast.

Lithology and stratigraphy

The Group comprises the Upper Eday Sandstone Formation, Eday Marl Formation, Middle Eday Sandstone Formation, Eday Flagstone Formation, Lower Eday Sandstone Formation and the Hoy Sandstone Formation laid down in the shallow Orcadian Basin during the Givetian stage of the Devonian period. The sediments vary from fluvial to lacustrine to lagoonal. On the island of Hoy, the Hoy Sandstone is a particularly thick formation at whose base is the Hoy Volcanic member.[3]

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References

  1. Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. British Geological Survey. "Eday Group". BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  3. British Geological Survey 1:100,000 scale geological map (Scotland) Orkney Islands (special sheet)

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