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Zircon from Scotland, UK

UK
 
  • Scotland
    • Aberdeenshire
      • Rhynie
Parnell, John, Temitope O. Akinsanpe, John W. Still, Andrea Schito, Stephen A. Bowden, David K. Muirhead, and Joseph G. T. Armstrong. (2023) "Low-Temperature Fluorocarbonate Mineralization in Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert, UK" Minerals 13, no. 5: 595. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13050595
      • Strathdon
        • Glenbuchat
Jackson, Brian. (1982). An Occurrence of Gem Quality Elbaite from Glenbuchat, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Journal of Gemmology. 18. 121-125. 10.15506/JoG.1982.18.2.121.
    • Argyll and Bute
www.abdn.ac.uk/geology/profiles/auming/pitchstone/pitchstones.htm.
B.G.J. Upton et al. , Journal of the Geological Society, 1998, V 155, N° 5, pp 813-828.
        • Loch na Keal
    • Dumfries and Galloway
      • Cairnsmore
    • Fife
Moreton, S. (2006) A Mineralogical Tour of the Kingdom of Fife. Uk Journal of Mines and Minerals 27, 29-35
    • Highland
      • Aird and Loch Ness
        • Glen Urquhart
        • Strathglass
          • Struy
      • Caol and Mallaig
Van Breemen, O., Aftalion, M., Pankhurst, R. J., & Richardson, S. W. (1979). Age of the Glen Dessary syenite, Inverness-shire: diachronous Palaeozoic metamorphism across the Great Glen. Scottish Journal of Geology, 15(1), 49-62. doi.org/10.1144/sjg15010049
www.abdn.ac.uk/geology/profiles/auming/pitchstone/pitchstones.htm.
        • Isle of Rum
Livingstone, A., Macpherson, H. G. (1983) Fifth supplementary list of British minerals (Scottish) Mineralogical Magazine, 47 (342) 99-105 doi:10.1180/minmag.1983.047.342.23
Williams, C.T. (1978) Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 66, 29, 33.
      • Cromarty Firth
        • Loch Glass
          • Kiltearn
      • Eilean á Chèo
        • Isle of Skye
Hoersch, Alice L. (1981) Progressive metamorphism of the chert-bearing Durness limestone in the Beinn an Dubhaich aureole, Isle of Skye, Scotland: a reexamination. American Mineralogist, 66 (5-6) 491-506
          • Broadford
            • Kilchrist
          • Luib
Neil Hubbard
The Geology of Skye
          • Sligachan
      • Fort William and Ardnamurchan
        • Ballachulish
Ferry, J.M. (1996) Three novel isograds in metamorphosed siliceous dolomites from the Ballachulish aureole, Scotland. American Mineralogist, 81(3-4), 485-496.
Graham, S.D., Holwell, D.A., McDonald, I., Jenkin, G.R.T., Hill, N.J., Boyce, A.J., Smith, J., Sangster, C. (2017) Magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE-Au sulfide mineralisation in alkaline igneous systems: An example from the Sron Garbh intrusion, Tyndrum, Scotland. Ore Geology Reviews: 80: 961-984.
      • Loch Duich
      • North, West and Central Sutherland
        • Assynt
Searle, M. P., Law, R. D., Dewey, J. F., & Streule, M. J. (2010). Relationships between the Loch Ailsh and Borralan alkaline intrusions and thrusting in the Moine Thrust zone, southern Assynt culmination, NW Scotland. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 335(1), 383-404. doi.org/10.1144/SP335.18
Young, B. N., Parsons, I., & Threadgould, R. (1994). Carbonatite near the Loch Borralan intrusion, Assynt. Journal of the Geological Society, 151(6), 945-954. doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.151.6.0945
Thirlwall, M. F., & Burnard, P. (1990). Pb-Sr-Nd isotope and chemical study of the origin of undersaturated and oversaturated shoshonitic magmas from the Borralan pluton, Assynt, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 147(2), 259-269. doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.147.2.0259
Notholt, A. J. G., Highley, D. E., & Harding, R. R. (1985). Investigation of phosphate (apatite) potential of Loch Borralan igneous complex, northwest Highlands, Scotland. Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Section B. Applied earth science, 94, 58-65.
Van Breemen, O., Aftalion, M., & Johnson, M. R. W. (1979). Age of the Loch Borrolan complex, Assynt, and late movements along the Moine Thrust Zone. Journal of the Geological Society, 136(4), 489-495. doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.136.4.0489
Martin, R. F., Whitley, J. E., & Woolley, A. R. (1978). An investigation of rare-earth mobility: fenitized quartzites, Borralan Complex, NW Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 66(1), 69-73. doi.org/10.1007/BF00376086
Matthews, D. W., & Woolley, A. R. (1977). Layered ultramafic rocks within the Borralan Complex, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 13(3), 223-236. doi.org/10.1144/sjg13030223
Woolley, A. R. (1973). The pseudoleucite borolanites and associated rocks of the south-eastern tract of the Borralan complex, Scotland. British Museum (Natural History), Mineralogy, 2, 285-333.
Parsons, I. (1972). Comparative petrology of the leucocratic syenites of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Geological Journal, 8(1), 71-82. doi.org/10.1002/gj.3350080107
Woolley, A. R., Symes, R. F., & Elliott, C. J. (1972). Metasomatized (fenitized) quartzites from the Borralan Complex, Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine, 38(299), 819-836. doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1972.038.299.06
Reddy, S. M., Johnson, T. E., Fischer, S., Rickard, W. D. A., & Taylor, R. J. M. (2015). Precambrian reidite discovered in shocked zircon from the Stac Fada impactite, Scotland. Geology, 43(10), 899-902.
BMS Collection
Halliday, A. N., Aftalion, M., Parsons, I., Dickin, A. P., & Johnson, M. R. W. (1987). Syn-orogenic alkaline magmatism and its relationship to the Moine Thrust Zone and the thermal state of the Lithosphere in NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 144(4), 611-617. doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.144.4.0611
Parsons, I. (1979). The Assynt alkaline suite. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 8(1), 677-681. doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1979.008.01.82
Parsons, I. (1968). The origin of the basic and ultrabasic rocks of the Loch Ailsh alkaline intrusion, Assynt. Scottish Journal of Geology, 4(3), 221-234. doi.org/10.1144/sjg04030221
Parsons, I. (1965). The sub-surface shape of part of the Loch Ailsh intrusion, Assynt, as deduced from magnetic anomalies across the contact, with a note on traverses across the Loch Borralan complex. Geological Magazine, 102(1), 46-58. doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800053863
Parsons, I. (1965). The feldspathic syenites of the Loch Ailsh intrusion, Assynt, Scotland. Journal of Petrology, 6(3), 365-394. doi.org/10.1093/petrology/6.3.365
Phemister, J. (1926). The alkaline igneous rocks of the Loch Ailsh district. The Geology of Strath Oykell and Lower Loch Shin, 102. Geological Survey, Scotland, Memoirs. HMSO, Edinburgh, 22-111.
        • Loch Loyal Complex
Hughes, H. S., Goodenough, K. M., Walters, A. S., McCormac, M., GUNN, A. G., & Lacinska, A. (2013). The structure and petrology of the Cnoc nan Cuilean Intrusion, Loch Loyal Syenite Complex, NW Scotland. Geological Magazine, 150(5), 783-800. doi.org/10.1017/S0016756812000957
Walters, A. S., Goodenough, K. M., Hughes, H. S., Roberts, N. M., Gunn, A. G., Rushton, J., & Lacinska, A. (2013). Enrichment of Rare Earth Elements during magmatic and post-magmatic processes: a case study from the Loch Loyal Syenite Complex, northern Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 166(4), 1177-1202. doi.org/10.1007/s00410-013-0916-z
Halliday, A. N., Aftalion, M., Parsons, I., Dickin, A. P., & Johnson, M. R. W. (1987). Syn-orogenic alkaline magmatism and its relationship to the Moine Thrust Zone and the thermal state of the Lithosphere in NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 144(4), 611-617. doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.144.4.0611
King, B. C. (1942). The CNOC Nan Cuilean Area of the Ben Loyal Igneous Complex: Read 19 February, 1941 [Plates III-VI]. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 98(1-4), 147-185. doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1942.098.01-04.09
      • Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh
        • Strath Conon
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
    • North Ayrshire
    • Outer Hebrides
      • Isle of Lewis and Harris
        • Harris
O. von Knorring and R. Dearnley (1960) The Lewisian Pegmatites of South Harris, Outer Hebrides. Mineralogical Magazine 32:366-378
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
O. von Knorring and R. Dearnley (1960) The Lewisian Pegmatites of South Harris, Outer Hebrides. Mineralogical Magazine 32:366-378
O. von Knorring and R. Dearnley (1960) The Lewisian Pegmatites of South Harris, Outer Hebrides. Mineralogical Magazine 32:366-378
Baba, S., Grew, E. S., Shearer, C. K., & Sheraton, J. W. (2000). Surinamite: A high-temperature metamorphic beryllosilicate from Lewisian sapphirine-bearing kyanite-orthopyroxene-quartz-potassium feldspar gneiss at South Harris, NW Scotland. American Mineralogist, 85(10), 1474-1484.
        • Lewis
Hitchen, K., Morton, A. C., Mearns, E. W., Whitehouse, M., & Stoker, M. S. (1997). Geological implications from geochemical and isotopic studies of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary igneous rocks around the northern Rockall Trough. Journal of the Geological Society, 154(3), 517-521. doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.154.3.0517
Waagstein, R., & Morton, A. C. (1989). Highly Alkaline Lapilli Tuffs from Rosemary Bank: Evidence for Continental Lithosphere Beneath the Northern Part of the Rockall Trough.Terra Abstracts, 1, 31-32.
Ferguson, A. K. (1978). The crystallization of pyroxenes and amphiboles in some alkaline rocks and the presence of a pyroxene compositional gap. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 67(1), 11-15. doi.org/10.1007/BF00371628
Young, B. R., Hawkes, J. R., Merriman, R. J., & Styles, M. T. (1978). Bazirite, BaZrSi 3 O 9, a new mineral from Rockall Island, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine, 42(321), 35-40. doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1978.042.321.04
Harrison, R. K. - Ed. (1975) Expeditions to Rockall 1971-72. Report Vol. 7 (75/01) Institute of Geological Sciences
Miller, J. A., & Mohr, P. A. (1965). Potassium-argon age determinations on rocks from St Kilda and Rockall. Scottish Journal of Geology, 1(1), 93-99. doi.org/10.1144/sjg01010093
Judd, J.W. 1897. On the petrology of Rockall. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 31, 48-58.
www.kilda.org.uk (2003) http://www.kilda.org.uk/kildanomdoc/level3p1.htm
St Kilda: an Illustrated Account of the Geology. Harding R.R., Merriman R.J. & Nancarrow P.H.A. 1984 (British Geological Survey Report Vol 16, No 7)
    • Shetland Islands
      • Mainland
        • West Mainland
Tindle, Andy G. (2008) Minerals of Britain and Ireland. Terra Publishing.
    • South Ayrshire
Macdonald, R., Bagiñski, B., Dzierżanowski, P., Fettes, D. J., & Upton, B. G. (2013). Chevkinite-group minerals in UK Palaeogene granites: underestimated REE-bearing accessory phases. The Canadian Mineralogist, 51(2), 333-347. doi.org/10.3749/canmin.51.2.333
Harrison, R. K., Stone, P., Cameron, I. B., Elliot, R. W., & Harding, R. R. (1987). Geology, petrology and geochemistry of Ailsa Craig, Ayrshire. British. Geological Saurvey Report, 16, 1-29.
 
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