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Melanite from Scotland, UK

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  • Scotland
    • Highland
      • North, West and Central Sutherland
Goodenough, K. M., Young, B. N., & Parsons, I. (2004). The minor intrusions of Assynt, NW Scotland: early development of magmatism along the Caledonian Front. Mineralogical Magazine, 68(4), 541-559. doi.org/10.1180/0026461046840207
Sabine, P. A. (1953). The petrography and geological significance of the post-Cambrian minor intrusions of Assynt and the adjoining districts of North-West Scotland1. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 109(1-4), 137-172. doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1953.109.01-04.08
Sabine, P. A. (1952). The ledmorite dike of Achmelvich, near Lochinver, Sutherland. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 29(216), 827-832.
        • Assynt
Goodenough, K. M., Evans, J. A., & Krabbendam, M. (2006). Constraining the maximum age of movements in the Moine Thrust Belt: dating the Canisp Porphyry. Scottish Journal of Geology, 42(1), 77-81. doi.org/10.1144/sjg42010077
Goodenough, K. M., Young, B. N., & Parsons, I. (2004). The minor intrusions of Assynt, NW Scotland: early development of magmatism along the Caledonian Front. Mineralogical Magazine, 68(4), 541-559. doi.org/10.1180/0026461046840207
Sabine, P. A. (1953). The petrography and geological significance of the post-Cambrian minor intrusions of Assynt and the adjoining districts of North-West Scotland1. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 109(1-4), 137-172. doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1953.109.01-04.08
Sabine, P. A. (1952). The ledmorite dike of Achmelvich, near Lochinver, Sutherland. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 29(216), 827-832.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Shand, S. J. (1910). On borolanite and its associates in Assynt. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 9, 202-215 (preliminary communication), 376-419 (second communication). doi.org/10.1144/transed.9.3.202
Livingstone, 2002, p. 186
Woolley, A. R. (1965). The Loch Borralan alkaline igneous complex (Doctoral dissertation, Royal Holloway, University of London).
Shand, S. J. (1910). On borolanite and its associates in Assynt. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 9, 202-215 (preliminary communication), 376-419 (second communication). doi.org/10.1144/transed.9.3.202
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.
    • Orkney Islands
      • Orkney Island
Upton, B. G. J., Mitchell, R. H., Longs, A., & Aspen, P. (1992). Primitive olivine melanephelinite dykes from the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Geological Magazine, 129(3), 319-324. doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800019257
Baxter, A. N. (1987). Petrochemistry of late Palaeozoic alkali lamprophyre dykes from N Scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 77(4), 267-277. doi.org/10.1017/S0263593300023166
Baxter, A. N., & Mitchell, J. G. (1984). Camptonite-Monchiquite dyke swarms of Northern Scotland
Halliday, A. N., McAlpine, A., & Mitchell, J. G. (1977). The age of the Hoy lavas, Orkney. Scottish Journal of Geology, 13(1), 43-52. doi.org/10.1144/sjg13010043
Brown, J. F. (1975). Potassium-Argon evidence of a Permian age for the camptonite dykes: Orkney. Scottish Journal of Geology, 11(3), 259-262. doi.org/10.1144/sjg11030259
Kellock, E. (1969). Alkaline basic igneous rocks in the Orkneys. Scottish Journal of Geology, 5(2), 140-153. doi.org/10.1144/sjg05020140
Flett, J. S. (1900). XXXIII.—The Trap Dykes of the Orkneys. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 39(4), 865-905. doi.org/10.1017/S0080456800034517
Age relationships and their implications. Scottish Journal of Geology, 20(3), 297-308. doi.org/10.1144/sjg20030297
 
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