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Oligoclase from
Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Albite var: Oligoclase
Formula:(Na,Ca)[Al(Si,Al)Si2O8]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Oligoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1243233
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1243233:6
GUID (UUID V4):41abcf10-cf67-4b20-8ba9-f9acd2d26690
Nearest other occurrences of Oligoclase
12.4km (7.7 miles) Gribun dike, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
92.1km (57.2 miles) Marsco, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
94.7km (58.9 miles) Coire an Lochain, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
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'"'"-~" '. . ' _The Tertiary Volcanic Districts of Scotland • • · • THIRD EQITION ""'" ".· '·. -~ ... .... Front cover Fingal's Cave, StafTa: a columnar-jointed basalt lava Oow of the Mull Plateau Group...regular columns at the base of the flow are overlain by an upper tier of narrow, poorly developed irregular...in the top right of the photograph. (D 2218) Tertiary Volcanic Districts, Scotland (Ceo!. Sure.) A...(Frontispiece) THE C-U ILLI N H ILLS AND BLAVEN, SKYE, FORMED OF TERTIARY PLUTONICROCKS (GABBRO), FROM
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._ - -:i .. Me1noirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland TERTIARY AND POST-TERTIARY GEOLOGY Olt...ALINE, AND OBAN (A DESCRIFTION OF PARTS OF SHEETS 43, • GEOLOGICAL MAP.) 44, 51, AND 52 OF THE BY...B. "\VRIGHT, B.A.; J. E. RICHEY, J.\iI.C., B.A.; AND G. V. \\rILSON, B.Sc. \VITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY E....A., D.Sc.; AND G. A. BURNETT, B.Sc. WITII PETROLOGY H. H. THO�L\.S, M.A., Sc.D., BY AND E. B. BAILEY...ANALYS:ES BY E. G. RADLEY, F.C.S., AND F. R. ENNOS, B.A., B.Sc., A.I.C. AND P AL"'7EOBOTANY BY A. c. SEWARD
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Regional Geology The Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland FOURTH EDITION CH Emeleus BR Bell Contributor:...C H. and BELL, BR. 2005. British regional geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland (Fourth...Printed in the UK b>f Hawthornes, Nottingham C/0 7105 Authors CH Emeleus Department of Earth Sciences...University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH I 3LE BR Bell Division of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Glasgow, Gregory Building, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G 12 BQQ Contributor D Stephenson
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MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. SUMMARY OF PROGRESS OF THE GEOJ-'OGICAL SURVE.Y OF GREAT BRITAIN...BRITAIN AND THE MUSElJM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY FOR 192 0. PUBLISHED BY OBDBB 01 'lHE LORDS OOlfMIS!lONEBS OY'...AUTHORITY OF HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased from E. STANFO.RD, Li:ro., 12, 13 and 14, LONG...NASSAU STREET, and 17 and 18, FREDERICK STREET, DUBLIN ; or from any Agent for the sale of Ordnance Survey... MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. SUMlIARY Ot� PROGRESS OF TI!E GEOLOGICAL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THFJ
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the Old Man of Storr, a stack of basalt lava tl1at l1as slipped down fro1n the escarpmemt of the Storr...instability of the underlying Jurassic Clays. Beyond is the Sound of Raasay and the Lewisian gneiss of the island...island of Rona. On the far side of Rona lies the Inner Sound, beyond whicl1 the Scottish mainland is...dominated by the Torridon sandstone hills of Ben Alligin, Bet1 Eighe and Liathach. Beneath rhe sea, Mesozoic...margi11 of the Sea of cl1e Hebrides-Little Minch Trough. Photo. D Evans. ' . ' The geology of the Malin-Hebrides
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This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve...preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com NEDL... KD15-533 ५. B.R C AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF PETROLOGY : THE IGNEOUS ROCKS BY FREDERICK H...H. HATCH, PH.D. , F.G.S. Ofthe Geological Survey of the United Kingdom WITH FORTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS...INTRODUCTION 7 MODE OF OCCURRENCE OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS 9 THE CONSTITUENT MINERALS OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS
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collected in Antarctic Regions during the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror under Sir James Clark Ross, in 1839-48...M.A., F.G.S., Assistant in the Mineral Department of the British Museum. !Read Nov. 15th, 1898.] Introduction...Expedition of 1839-43 were deposited in the British Museum. A few years ago, in the course of a re-arrangement...re-arrangement and registration of the rock-specimens n the Museum, this collection amongst others was examined...examined, and microscopic sections of some of the specimens were prepared. Nothing, however, was published
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UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA LIBRARY . THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND • THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND Edited by...Geology The University of Edinburgh OLIVER & BOYD EDINBURGH AND LONDON UNIVERSITY OF '/!CTORIA LIBRA.RV...RV Victo, ia , B C. OLIVER AND BOYD LTD Twecddalc Court Edinburgh I 19A Wclbe~k Street London WI First...First publtshed .. © 1965 Oliver and Boyd Ltd Printed in Great Britain by Robert Maclehose & Co Ltd...1965 PREFACE The last book on the geology of Scotland was published 120 years ago. This may seem surpr
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2Itbratg BOUGHT W[TH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF HENRY W. SAGE 1691 Cornell University...igneous rocl(S of Skye 3 1924 004 066 373 Cornell University Library The tine original of tiiis book...copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004066373... MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. THE TERTIARY IGNEOUS ROCKS OF SKYE. BY...BT M.A., F.G.S. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY. GLASGOW :
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