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	Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK Drostestrasse...Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...granites and syenites is intruded into the Caledonian terrane of the Northern Highlands of Scotland. Volumetrically...considerable range of compositions from ultramaﬁc and maﬁc to granitic and syenitic. Most intrude Proterozoic Moine...are exposed within the Moine Thrust Zone in the west, beyond which lies the Archaean Lewisian foreland
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Aegirine-augite from Loch Borralan Complex, Assynt, North， West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK

Aegirine-augite from
Loch Borralan Complex, Assynt, North， West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK