Den of Findon
Geological Conservation Review site | GCR #3244 | Stratigraphy | Non-Marine Devonian
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Summary
The Gamrie Fish Bed is historically important as one of the first prolific Scottish Old Red Sandstone fossil fish sites. The Den of Findon GCR site has magnificent cliff and foreshore sections nearby in Gamrie Bay, and to the east at Pennan and New Aberdour provide the best sections available of the Turriff Basin. Lower Old Red Sandstone and Middle Old Red Sandstone successions, and the intervening unconformity, are completely exposed, allowing detailed analysis of the sedimentary rocks and the environments in which they were deposited. Of particular importance are the trace fossil assemblages, the variations in facies and the bounding faults with the Dalradian, all spectacularly displayed in these sections.
(From ORS volume September 2004)
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