Moray Group | |
Type: | Group |
Age: | Paleocene to Eocene |
Period: | Palaeogene |
Prilithology: | mudstone, siltstone |
Otherlithology: | sandstone, lignite, tuff |
Namedfor: | Moray Firth |
Region: | North Sea and Faroe-Shetland Basin |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Subunits: | Dornoch Formation, Sele Formation & Balder Formation |
Underlies: | Stronsay Group |
Overlies: | Montrose Group |
Thickness: | <30 m up to 500 m |
The Moray Group is a stratigraphic group, a set of geological rock strata of Paleocene to Eocene age, found beneath the North Sea and in the Faroe-Shetland Basin.[1] Two sequences are recognised, a shelf succession consisting of sandstones and siltstones of the Dornoch Formation and a thicker basinal succession consisting of mainly mudstones of the Sele Formation and the Balder Formation.