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Oligoclase from UK

UK
 
  • England
    • Cumbria
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Eastwood, T., Hollingworth, S. E., Rose, W. C. C., Trotter, F. M. (1968) Geology of the Country around Cockermouth and Caldbeck, explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 23, New Series. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Institute of Geological Sciences
Rastall, R. H. (1910) The Skiddaw Granite and its Metamorphism. Journal of the Geological Society, 66 (1) 116-141 doi:10.1144/gsl.jgs.1910.066.01-04.08
Cooper, M. P., Stanley, C. J. (1990) Minerals of the English Lake District - Caldbeck Fells. The Natural History Museum, London.
Eastwood, T., Hollingworth, S. E., Rose, W. C. C., Trotter, F. M. (1968) Geology of the Country around Cockermouth and Caldbeck, explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 23, New Series. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Institute of Geological Sciences
Harker, A. (1895) Carrock Fell: a study in the variation of igneous rock masses - part II The Carrock Fell Granophyre, part III the Grainsgill greisen. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 51, 125-148.
      • Copeland
        • Ennerdale and Kinniside
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
    • Derbyshire
      • High Peak
        • Wormhill
Ford, T., Sarjeant, A., Smith, M. (1993) The minerals of the Peak district of Derbyshire. UK Journal of Mines and Minerals 13, Rockbottom Publications. 16-55
    • Devon
      • Exeter
Thorpe, R. S., Cosgrove, M. E., & Van Calsteren, P. W. C. (1986). Rare earth element, Sr-and Nd-isotope evidence for petrogenesis of Permian basaltic and K-rich volcanic rocks from south-west England. Mineralogical Magazine, 50(357), 481-490. doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1986.050.357.11
Knill, D. C. (1982). Permian volcanism in south-western England. In: Sutherland, D.S. (ed) Igneous Rocks of the British Isles. Wiley, Chichester, 329-332.
Cosgrove, M. E. (1972). The geochemistry of the potassium-rich Permian volcanic rocks of Devonshire, England. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 36(2), 155-170. doi.org/10.1007/BF00371186
Velde, D. (1971). A note on an analcite-bearing lamproite from Devonshire. Geological Magazine, 108(3), 201-204. doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800051542
Knill, D. C. (1969). The Permian igneous rocks of Devon. Bull. geol. Surv. G. B, 29, 115-38.
Miller, J. A., Shibata, K., & Munro, M. (1962). The potassium—argon age of the lava of Killerton Park, near Exeter. Geophysical Journal International, 6(3), 394-396. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1962.tb00360.x
      • Torridge
Thorpe, R. S., & Tindle, A. G. (1992). Petrology and petrogenesis of a tertiary bimodal dolerite‐peralkaline/subalkaline trachyte/rhyolite dyke association from Lundy, Bristol Channel, UK. Geological Journal, 27(2), 101-117. doi.org/10.1002/gj.3350270202
Thorpe, R. S., Tindle, A. G., & Gledhill, A. (1990). The petrology and origin of the Tertiary Lundy granite (Bristol Channel, UK). Journal of Petrology, 31(6), 1379-1406.
Mussett, A. E., Dagley, P., & Skelhorn, R. R. (1988). Time and duration of activity in the British Tertiary Igneous Province. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 39(1), 337-348. doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1988.039.01.29
Mussett, A. E., Dagley, P., & Eckford, M. (1976). The British Tertiary igneous province: palaeomagnetism and ages of dykes, Lundy Island, Bristol Channel. Geophysical Journal International, 46(3), 595-603. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1976.tb01250.x
Edmunds, E.A., Williams, B.J. & Taylor, R.T. 1979. Geology of Bideford and Lundy Island. Geological Survey of Great Britain, Memoirs. Institute of Geological Sciences, London.
      • West Devon
        • Okehampton Hamlets
Russell, A. (1910): Mineralogical Magazine 15, 377-384
    • Leicestershire
      • Hinckley and Bosworth
        • Barwell
Mineralogical Magazine 1966 35 : 881-902
    • Merseyside
      • Wirral
Day, Harry (1999) BMS Database, British Micromount Society.
  • Scotland
    • Argyll and Bute
      • Isle of Mull
B.G.J. Upton et al. , Journal of the Geological Society, 1998, V 155, N° 5, pp 813-828.
      • Isle of Staffa
J. C. Phillips, M. C. S. Humphreys, K. A. Daniels, R. J. Brown, F. Witham (2013) The formation of columnar joints produced by cooling in basalt at Staffa, Scotland. Bulletin of Volcanology, 75:715, pp. 17.
    • East Lothian
H. Downes et al. Lithos 58 2001 105–124
    • Highland
      • Eilean á Chèo
        • Isle of Skye
          • Sligachan
Emeleus, C. H., Gyopari, M. C. (1992) Chapter 2: The Isle of Skye. In British Tertiary Volcanic Province - Geological Conservation Review No. 4. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. p.13-68.
Davidson, C. F. (1935). XVI.—The Tertiary Geology of Raasay, Inner Hebrides. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 58(2), 375-407.doi.org/10.1017/S0080456800018998
Davidson, C. F. (1935). XVI.—The Tertiary Geology of Raasay, Inner Hebrides. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 58(2), 375-407.doi.org/10.1017/S0080456800018998
      • Fort William and Ardnamurchan
Mineralogical Magazine 1967 36 : 60-63
      • 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
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.
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.
    • North Ayrshire
      • Beith
[BMS]
    • 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
    • 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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