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The Structure of the Earth
Mull's Stratigraphy
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Precambrian
The Moines and Dalradian
The Devonian Period
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Tertiary Granite
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Mull's Stratigraphic Column – Geological Timescale

Period

 Era

Mull Geology

Begin - End (Mya) – Millions of Years

Neogene

Recent (Holocene)

Quarternary

Post Glacial Deposits

23.0 - 0.00

Pleistocene

 Tertiary

Glacial Deposits

Pliocene

  

Miocene

  

Paleogene

Oligocene

  

65.5 - 23.0

Eocene

 Basalt Lavas; Ardtun Leaf Beds; Fossil Trees

Palaeocene

Cretaceous

Mesozoic

Silicified Chalk

146 - 65.5

Jurassic

Sandstones and Fossiliferous Mudstones

200 - 146

Triassic

Conglomerates and Desert/Lagoonal Sandy Mudstones.  Unconformity with Moine psammites.

251 - 200

Permian

Upper Palaeozoic

299 - 251

Carboniferous

 

359 - 299

Devonian

Ross of Mull Granite. Devonian Lavas at Loch Don.

416 - 359

Silurian

Lower Palaeozoic  

444 - 416

Ordovician

 

488 - 444

Cambrian

Moines and Dalradian

542 - 488

Precambrian

  

 Lewisian Gneiss
Torridonian Sandstone

(4,600) - 542
 		  
   

Last modified  Friday December 07, 2007