| Kawai, T., Windley, B.F., Shibuya, T., Omori, S., Sawaki, Y., Maruyama, S. (2008) Large P–T gap between Ballantrae blueschist/garnet pyroxenite and surrounding ophiolite, southern Scotland, UK: Diapiric exhumation of a Caledonian serpentinite mélange. Lithos, 104 (1) 337-354 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2008.01.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pyroxenite and surrounding ophiolite, southern Scotland, UK: Diapiric exhumation of a Caledonian serpentinite... The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK Received 25 July 2007; accepted 29 January 2008 Available...Abstract The Ballantrae ophiolite in southern Scotland includes a NEE–SWW-trending serpentinite mélange...± 32 and 505 ± 11 Ma). Tectonic blocks of mafic schist are less than 3 × 3 m in size, and have greenschist...501 ± 12 Ma volcanic arc belt extends for 3 km south of the serpentinite mélange. We suggest that ridge | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Observations on the Ballantrae Igneous Complex, South Ayrshire. By D. I. BALSILLIE, Royal Scottish Museum...southern belt of the Ballantrae serpentine, stretching south-*- west from Millenderdale, there occur many exposures...xiii, 283), regarded some of the rocks on Littleton Hill as " relics of an older mass of dolerite or gabbro...seems to have been developed in rocks on Littleton Hill which may originally have been spilites and diabase...inferred that the metamorphic rocks seen on Littleton Hill must have been derived from dolerites and gabbros |
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