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Sanidine from
Fidra, East Lothian, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Sanidine
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sanidine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fidra, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1232454
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1232454:1
GUID (UUID V4):4360604c-1586-4941-aabe-9cae99c1ca9e
Nearest other occurrences of Sanidine
82.2km (51.1 miles) Comrie contact aureole, Comrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mafic and ultramafic xenoliths from Fidra žSouthern Uplands, Scotland /: implications for lithospheric processes...UniÕersity of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK Department of Geology and Geophysics, UniÕersity...of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK c Department of Geology, Royal Holloway UniÕersity...UniÕersity of London, Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX, UK Received 25 July 2000; accepted 29 June 2001 Abstract Several...occur in a Permian basanite sill in Fidra, eastern central Scotland. One group consists of spinel lherzolites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the deep geology of the Midland Valley of Scotland and adjacent regions Brian G. J. Upton, Peder...alkalic basalts in and around the Midland Valley of Scotland contain a wide variety of 'plutonic' xenoliths...xenolith sites occur within the Midland Valley of Scotland (MVS) and provide information on the various lithologies...Ayrshire in the western MVS and in Fife and East Lothian in the eastern MVS. Xenolith sites between the...the deep geology of the eastern MVS region. East Lothian also contains numerous localities. Since these
Report (chapter)
2015 Carboniferous and Permian magmatism in Scotland B. G. J. U P T O N 1, D. S T E P H E N S O N 2...of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK (e-mail." bupton@glg.ed.ac.uk) 2British Geological...EH9 3LA UK 3British Geological Survey, Maclean Building, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OXIO 8BB, UK Abstract:...Isles, with accompanying basaltic magmatism. In Scotland Dinantian magmatism was dominantly mildly alkalinetransitional...dyke swarm and sills across northern England and Scotland. Alkali basaltic magmatism persisted into the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
beneath Scotland 1 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH EH9 3JW, UK 2...SCIENCE AND COMPUTING, LUTON UNIVERSITY, LUTON LU1 3JU, UK 3 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, UNIVERSITY...WORDS: anorthoclase; corundum; mantle; megacrysts; Scotland ∗Corresponding author. INTRODUCTION This paper...composition. In Scotland the localities define a broad swath extending from NE Scotland, around the Hebrides...localities in the north east of the Scottish Midland Valley and (d) localities in the north east of the Southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK. School of Geography and Geosciences, University...Andrews, Irvine Building, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, UK 3 Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological...1. Map showing the five structural terranes in Scotland and xenolith-megacryst localities. LR, Loch Roag:...FI, Fidra: RP, Ruddon’s Point: EN, Elie Ness: CYD, Coalyard Hill. concentration is in Scotland (Upton...the five principal tectonic terranes composing Scotland namely, the Southern Uplands terrane (at Earnscleugh
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00710-018-0610-y ORIGINAL PAPER The mantle of Scotland viewed through the Glen Gollaidh aillikite Mark...Gollaidh aillikite dyke (58.36741°N 4.69751°W), N.W. Scotland, occurs within the Neoproterozoic sedimentary...sedimentary rocks of the Moine Supergroup ~4 km east of the Moine Thrust. Phlogopite 40Ar/36Ar measurements give...intra-plate alkali magmatism which affected southern Scotland for ~60 My from c. 350 Ma. Abundant chromites...the Moine thrust, is therefore inferred to extend east at depth under Glen Gollaidh, presenting an opportunity
Book
described in this memoir includes that part of the East Lothian roast from Cockcnzic to North Berw ick and extends...and part of Sheet 4 1 of the geological n1ap of Scotland. Thr introductory chapter outli nes the physical...British Regional Geology .. The Midland Valley of Scotland, 3rd Edition, 1985 Memoirs The geology of the...43 Early volcan1c1ty 44 North Be[v\,ick Member 44 East Linton Member 46 Hail es Member 48 Bangley Member...Calciferous Sand'itone Measures in Midlothian and East Lothian J 7 VI 8 Generalised map of the Calciferous
Report (issue)
Group, with volcanic rocks of Edinburgh and East Lothian [Confor1nablepassage upwards to Carbo1iiferous]...the north-west by the Bathgate Hills and to the east by the Garleton Hills area around Haddington. The...Limestone age) that for111 the Bathgate Hills. To the east the Upper Old Red Sandstone is practicalJy eve1·ywhere...of the Scottish ice-sheet were recognized in East Lothian by Profs. P. F. Kendall and E. B. Bailey. The...one-inch map, Sheets 32 (Edinburgh) and 33 (East Lothian). Descriptive memoirs on Sheets 32 and 33 are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
little to the west of the Island and lighthouse of Fidra. The author demonstrated by means of a map and lantern...compact and showing many decomposed phenocrysts of sanidine and a great number of scattered granules of augite...'" The Post-Pliocene Non-marine Mollusca of the East of England." By A. S. Kennard, F.G.S., and B. B
Report (edition)
33 MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. SCOTLAND THE GEOLOGY EAST IXOT_jUDING P.Lt\.R11S OF TIIE 001JNTIES... LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SCOTLAND. (25 111iles to tl1e inch) of the British Islands..."\Vestern Districts. 5s. 9d. 4. ,,r igto\\'nsl1ire, East l:>al't ; Kirl{ct1,lbrightsl1ire, r.,ortio11 of...· a11d l�inross. 14s. 9d. 40. F'ife 41. }i' ife� East 1\art ; Haddingtonsl1ire, N 01·th pa.rt. 5s. 9d...included in sheet · 33 . •. of the one-inch 1nap of Scotland, together with a strip of c.oast·-line on either
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
little to the west of the Island and lighthouse of Fidra. The author demonstrated by means of a map and lantern...compact and showing many decomposed phenocrysts of sanidine and a great number of scattered granules of augite
Report (chapter)
Earth Sciences, Leeds University, Leeds L S 2 9JT, UK Present address: Institut f~ir Geowissenschaften...Kelso volcanic rocks in the Midland Valley of Scotland and the Northumberland Basin (Figs 4 and 5a)....(2004) suggest that their 352.5 + 1.4Ma 4~ age for sanidine from a trachyte intrusion from the Eitdon Hills...Volcanic (CPV) Formation in the Midland Valley of Scotland represents the largest volume of Visean magmatic...Clyde Plateau Volcanic Formation; D, Derbyshire; EM, East Midlands; K, Kelso; LB, Limerick Basin; LW, Little
Book
Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...problem Arthur W. G. Kingsbury wus born in 1906 at East Meon, Hampshire. He received a classical education
Report (volume)
PANKHURST (UK) Society Books Editors JOHN GREGORY (UK) JIM GRIFFITHS (UK) JOHN HOWE (UK) PHIL LEAT (UK) NICK...NICK ROBINS (UK) JONATHAN TURNER (UK) Society Books Advisors MIKE BROWN (USA) ERIC BUFFETAUT (FRANCE )...is Registered Charity 210161. The Society is the UK national learned and professional society for geology...fifth of the Society’s fellowship resides outside the UK. To find out more about the Society, log on to www...uk. The Geological Society Publishing House (Bath, UK) produces the Society’s international journals and
Book
informa business © 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK Typeset by MPS Limited (A Macmillan Company), Chennai...of dunites from the Kosvinsky, Sakharinsky, and East Khabarninsky mafic–ultramafic massifs, all of which...Victoria,Australia (Frey & Green, 1974), RNAA Fidra, Scotland Kakanui, South Yemen Hawaii Camperdaun Cape...element composition of picrites (ppm). Provinces East Kamchatka, Russia Pekul’ney ridge, Russia (Markovsky...Picrite/chondrite C1 1000 100 10 1 0 PM PM C1 C1 East Kamchatka province (Russia) 1000 Picrite/chondrite
Book (edition)
..................................... 868 IV.2. East Kalimantan Cenozoic Basins, (bio-)stratigraphy ........................... 1363 VII.1. Banda Sea, East Banda Arc (incl. Tanimbar, Kai, Aru) .............................. 2140 IX.11. Papua New Guinea (East New Guinea main island) ..........................include: - Directions: N, S, E, W = North, South, East, West - Journals: J. = Journal, Bull. = Bulletin...jpg) (‘Geological overview map of the Netherlands East Indies’. First geological overview map of Indonesia
 
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