Millstone Point Sandstone Member
Millstone Point Sandstone Member (MPS), Isle of Arran, Carboniferous, Midland Valley of Scotland
The Millstone Point Sandstone Member is part of the Clyde Sandstone Formation.
Name
From Millstone Point, north-east Arran. See Paterson and Hall (1986).
Lithology
Mainly white, cross-bedded sandstone with thin beds of red-brown or grey mudstone (BGS, 1987a).
Stratotype
The type section is the Laggan shoreline on the north-east coast of the Isle of Arran (NR 9995 4875 to 9887 5013).
Lower and upper boundaries
The member conformably overlies the Laggantuin Cornstone Member (Figure 6, Column 1), which comprises sandstone and red-brown silty mudstone in fining-upward cycles with nodules and beds of concretionary limestone. The base is seen at (NR 9995 4875).
The stratigraphical top of the Millstone Point Sandstone Member is not seen. It is either faulted or unconformably overlain by grey mudstones with plant remains of the Laggan Cottage Mudstone Formation of the Strathclyde Group.
Thickness
About 150–200.m. BGS (1987a) gave a generalised thickness of 200 m.
Distribution and regional correlation
Laggan shoreline on the north-east coast of the Isle of Arran.
Age
Tournaisian