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Granodiorite from
Criffel granodiorite, Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK


Classification
Type:Granodiorite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granodiorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Criffel granodiorite, Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1082173
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1082173:0
GUID (UUID V4):e224ede0-5241-48f1-bdfe-dc8a4038d9ea
References
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Book
Geolo RESEARCH COUNCIL of the Kirkcudbright-Dalbeattie district I • - - - - Kirkcudbright_Memoir_Complete...KIRKCUDBRIGHT-DALBEATTIE DISTRICT SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS (DRIFT) Quaternary (Pleistocene and Recent) Alluvium...Alluvium (fluvial, coastal and estuarine), Peat, Post-Glacial raised beach deposits, Late-Glacial raised...raised beach deposits, Glaciolfluvial sand and gravel, Moraine, Till. SOLID FORMATIONS Permian Doweel Breccia...clasts ofwacke, microdiorite and granodiorite limestone, calcareous shale and thickly bedded sandstone calcareous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 · H. ·G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 H . G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...INTRODUCTION Compilation of the glossary . Style and guidelines Comments on the glossary . Statistical...groups. Appendix 3: Minerals discovered first in Scotland 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 12 13 39 44 47 SYNOPSIS...mineral species, listing some 443 mineral names, and containing 399 valid species has been corn piled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
list of British minerals (Scottish) A. LIVINGSTONE AND H. G. MACVH~RSON Department of Geology, Royal Scottish...the British Isles increases yearly and details of their localities and assemblages are scattered throughout...minerals (1898, 1931, and 1958) to complement the species detailed by Greg and Lettsom (1858) in their...Great Britain and Ireland. The listing tradition was continued by Embrey (1977 and 1978) and at the latter...et al., 1962, 1963, and 1979; Fleischer 1980; and Hey, 1962 and 1963; and Hey and Embrey 1974). The present
Report (chapter)
2015 Towards understanding the Dumfries Basin aquifer, SW Scotland M. C. A K H U R S T 1, D. E B A L...Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, UK 2Scottish Water, 419 Balmore Road, Glasgow G22 6NU, UK 3British Geological Survey...Wallingford, Oxfordshire 0)(10 8BB, UK (e-mail: nsro@bgs.ac, uk) 4Scottish Environment Protection Agency...Agency, Rivers House, Irongray Road, Dumfries DG2 0JE, UK 5British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre...Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK Abstract: The Dumfries Basin aquifer supports groundwater abstraction
Book
Geology of the Kirkcudbright-Dalbeattie district --- - -• > :: -:s- a I --- - ?:,:=------==...KIRKCUDBRIGHT- DALBEATTIE DISTRICT SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS (DRIFT) Qua.ternary (Pleistocene and Recent) Alluvium...Alluvium (fluvial, coastal and estuarine), Peat, Post-Glacial raised beach d eposits, Late-Glacial raised...raised beach deposits, Glaciolfluvial sand and gravel. Moraine, Till. SOLID FORMATIONS Pennian Doweel Breccia...UnconformifJ (on Silurian) Carboniferous (Colvend and Rerrick outliers) DINAl\1TV\N Rascarrel Formation
Report (issue)
geochemical drainage survey of the Fleet granitic complex and its environs I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I...of the Fleet granitic complex and its environs Metalliferous Minerals and Applied Geochemistry Unit R...C. Leake, BSc, PhD M. J. Brown, BSc Analytical and Ceramics Unit T. K. Smith BSc, BSc A. R. Date, BSc...granite roof in south-west Cornwall 2 Geochemical and geophysical investigations around Garras Mine, near...mineralisation in Precambrian rocks near Lairg, Scotland 4· Investigation of copper mineralisation at
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Regional geochemistry of southern Scotland and part of northern England Keyworth, Nottingham...volume has been prepared by staff of the Minerals and Geochemical Surveys Division of the British Geological...contributions from the Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys, and Corporate Coordination and Information divisions. It...Interactive Image Analysis Service BGS MAIN OFFICES AND SALES DESKS The full range of Survey publications...through the Sales Desks at Keyworth and at Murchison House, Edinburgh, and in the BGS London Information Office
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist Vol. 45, pp. 63-70 (2007) ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS PLUTONS: THE INFLUENCE OF EMPLACEMENT STYLE...USA Abstract Whether granitic magmas can detach and digest fragments of wallrock or mingle with other...“nested” plutons may grow as new pulses of magma invade and displace their predecessors, or “sheeted” plutons...grow as new magma follows contacts between wallrock and older intrusions. Contrary to a common assumption...fractionated. Emplacement kinematics of some plutons and lava domes are similar. Lava domes grow in two ways
Journal (volume)
DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN' SOCIETY FOUNDED 20th NOVEMBER, 1862 CENTENARY...TRANSACTIONS AND JOURNAL OF PROCEED1NGS 1961-62 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME XL. Editors R. C. RElD and A. E. TRUCKELL...A.Scot. DUMFRIES : Published by the Council of the Society 1963 DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY NATURAL...HISTORY I AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY FOUNDED 20th NOVEMBER, 1862 CENTENARY VOLUME OF TRANSACTIONS AND JOURNAL...VOLUME XL. Editors R. C. RElD and A. E. TRUCKELL, F.S.A.Scot. DUMFRIES: Published by the Council of the
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...PublishingLimited. Layout byJim Farley. Printed and bound by Craft Print International Ltd, Singapore...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction Miscellaneous
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The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 lNN, UK Carboniferous rocks in the north Solway onshore...sandstones, thoriferous bitumen nodules in sandstones and uraniferous bitumens in fractures associated with...sandstones after the dissolution of dolomite, calcite and clay cements. The radioelement-rich bitumens represent...hydrocarbons and metalliferous fluids. The close proximity of the Caledonian Criffel granodiorite, unroofed...suggests that the pluton was the source of uranium and thorium. Hydrocarbon source rocks are identified
Report (issue)
intrusive rocks at Cairngarroch Bay, south.;.west Scotland I I I I I INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES...intrusive rocks at Cairngarroch Bay, south-west Scotland Geochemistry P. J. Bide, BSc D. C. Cooper, BSc...granite roof in south•v"8st Cornwall Geochemical and geophys.cal investigations around Garras Mine, near...Struy, Inverness­ shire 7 Investigation of tungsten and other mineralisation associated with the Skiddaw...Argyllshire, Scotland 10 Geophysical surveys around Talnotry mine, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland 11 A study
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Stratigraphy of Permian and Supposed Permian Rocks of Southern Scotland By M. E. BROOKFIELD, Guelph...southern Scotland is described for the first time. These rocks consist of piedmont breccias and lavas,... overlain by wadi-fan and dune complexes, and alluvial fan and floodplain sediments. The sequences are...Lower Permian in age and correlatable with similar continental sediments in England and with the Lower Rotliegendes...Rotliegendes of Germany and the North Sea. R6sum6 La stratigraphie des formations des bassins permiens
Book (chapter)
Caledonian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain Compiled and edited by D. Stephenson British Geological Survey...Edinburgh P. Stone British Geological Survey, Edinburgh and W.J. Wadsworth University of Manchester, Manchester...radiolarian fauna from the Ballantrae Complex, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 34, 73-81. Al Jawadi...of the Lake District; geochronology, geochemistry and petrology. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of...H. M. (1986) Hessite and electrum from the Ratagain intrusion, northwest Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Advanced Studies, 5 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland and M. D. MAX SACLANTCEN Undersea Research Centre, 1-19138...boundary between a more magnetic northern crustal area and a less magnetic southern area. A pre-Carboniferous...east-central Ireland, between the Iapetus Suture and Southern Upland Line, the crust contains a large...information from Lower Palaeozoic inliers (McKerrow and Soper 1989). The obliteration of Iapetus was mainly...overstepped by basinal Silurian sediments (Hutton and Murphy 1987). The upper part of the continental crust
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PERMIAN INTERMONTANE BASIN SEDIMENTATION IN SOUTHERN SCOTLAND M.E. BROOKFIELD Department of Land Resource Science...Permian intermontane basin sedimentation in southern Scotland. Sediment. Geol., 27 : 167--194. Towards the end...stratigraphic record and the Permian deposits are here compared to similar deposits and processes operating...on alluvial fans, and the deposits of streamfloods, braided streams, sheetfloods and desert-floor ephemeral...breccias w i t h aeolian sand, w i n d - f a c e t e d and p o l i s h e d p e b b l e s a n d m i n o r fluviatile
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
7 An occurrence of paratacamite in south-west Scotland DURING the course of investigations in the Portencorkrie...Wigtownshire, mineralized vein samples were collected and paratacamite was identified by X-ray diffraction...this to be the first report of paratacamite in Scotland. The mineral occurs as a very thin green coating...greywackes and shales. Teall referred to the intrusion in 'The Silurian Rocks of Scotland, Vol. I' (Peach...(Peach and Horne, 1899, pp. 623-4), and it is described in a paper by Holgate U943). The vein is one of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Western Midland Valley of Scotland.* By Adam C. McLean, B.Sc, Ph.D., F.G.S. and Iftikhar R. Qureshi, B.Sc...Midland Valley of Scotland and the neighbouring areas of the south-western Grampians and Southern Uplands...similar to that prevailing throughout western Scotland, and (ii) a broad high over the central zone of the...from the maximum to the northern limit of the area and with a corresponding drop to the south. In a profile...Grampians and Southern Uplands, most probably by the addition of thick Lower Palaeozoic and Dalradian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recorded by the compositions of accessory apatite and zircon A. J. Miles • C. M. Graham • C. J. Hawkesworth...2013 Abstract Accessory minerals contain a robust and accessible record of magma evolution. However, they...granitic pluton (Scotland), whole-rock (WR) compositions reflect open system assimilation and fractional crystallisation...at depths of [11 km, whereas amphibole barometry and the absence of inherited zircon suggest that the...King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK e-mail: Andrew.Miles@ed.ac.uk C. M. Graham e-mail:
Report (chapter)
granitic intrusions at depth: a review L. Améglio and J. L. Vigneresse Geological Society, London, Special...statements and geochemistry) and indirect observations (modelling experiments, analogical models, and geophysics)...geophysical tools. Amongst these tools, heat-flow and heat-generation data used earlier to estimate the...strongly influenced by near-surface heterogeneities and temperature, which minimize their effectiveness at...surveys provide information on contacts between pluton and country rocks, since magnetic halos are appropriate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Miguel A. Paradal*,Paula Larrondol, Claudio Guiressel and Pierrick Roperch2 Department of Geology, University...Caleu pluton (Central Chile) extending ovei 338 km2 and with more than 1,400 m of vertical relief intrudes...N-S trending Lower Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary and volcanic successions at a depth equivalent to a pressure...Zone (GDZ), Tonalite Zone (TZ) and Granodiorite Zone (GZ). Biotite and hornblende compositions also exhibit...progressively less evolved rocks are recognized across GDZ and TZ, whereas no horizontal gradients were found in
Book (edition)
LlBR-ARY WHITMAN f;OJ I l[ii • , GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND GEOLOGY OF • SECOND EDITION Edited by G....Geology of Scotland '' A Halsted Press book." Includes bibliographies and index. I. Geology-Scotland. I. Craig...QE264.G43 1983 554.11 83-12223 Design, typography and lay-out by: T. L. Jenkins, Edinburgh Printed in Great...AUTHORS Xl PREFACE and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I. THE GROWTH AND ST RUCTURE OF SCOTLAND The formation of the...Caledonides Ophiolites and flysch Granites Late Caledonian Molasse and structure Sedimentation and volcanicity The
Map
(Australia), M. Aranha (India), L.F. Katona (Australia) and W.L. Slimmon (Canada). World Distribution of Uranium...South Australia and the Saskatchewan Geological Survey. Uranium Provinces generated and supplied by M....Reviews were provided by O. Kreuzer (Australia) and F. Bierlein (Australia). Deposit data derived from...ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Descriptive Uranium Deposit and Mineral System Models, IAEA, Vienna (2020). Map data...ca/eng/open-government-licence-canada) Coastlines and drainage were obtained from Natural Earth public
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Norway: correlations across southern Scandinavia and the Grenvillian controversy Ian C. Starmer Department...Norway: correlations across southern Scandinavia and the Grenvillian controversy. Precambrian Res., 49:107-139...continuation of the (now separate) Kongsberg Sector, and an autochthon, which is part of the Telemark Basement...formed at ~ 1100 Ma in the Sveconorwegian Orogeny and produced a distinctive gravity anomaly. The shear...Sector. The shear belt (of the Bumble parautochthon and Kongsherg Sector) absorbed high strains relative
Report (volume)
Fluid Flow and Solute Movement in Sandstones: The Onshore UK Permo-Triassic Red Bed Sequence The...PANKHURST(UK) Society Books Editors JOHN GREGORY (UK) JIM GRIFFITHS (UK) JOHN HOWE (UK) PHIL LEAT (UK) NICK...NICK ROBINS (UK) JONATHANTURNER (UK) Society Books Advisors MIKE BROWN (USA) ERIC BUFFETAUT (France) RETO...RETO GIERt~ (Germany) JON GLUYAS (UK) DOUG STEAD (Canada) RANDELL STEPHENSON (Netherlands) Geological...makes every effort to ensure that the scientific and production quality of its books matches that of its
 
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