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Spinel from
St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Archipelago
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1090055
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1090055:0
GUID (UUID V4):41999921-8bce-4dc8-8f7a-eae823f9ec90
References
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Book (chapter)
sites, St Kilda and Rockall, lie in the North Atlantic to the west of Scotland (Fig. 1.1). St Kilda is formed...similar to granulites exposed in the Outer Hebrides and north-west Scotland. The Helen's Reef microgabbro is...nonporphyritic central magma-type rocks of the Inner Hebrides (for example, those of Centre 2, Mull), pointing...first detailed map and account of the geology of St Kilda and recognized several subdivisions to the mafic...number of unusual features better represented on St Kilda than elsewhere. In 1979 and 1980 the islands were
Book (chapter)
Tertiary volcanic rocks of Eigg. Muck and Canna, N.W. Scotland. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of Durham...(Decade 6), 1, 29(-305. Bailey, E.B. (1926) Domes in Scotland and South Africa: Arran and Vredefort. Geological...(1945) Tertiary igneous tectonics of Rhum (Inner Hebrides). Quarterly Journalof the Geological Society of...Cannel granophyre, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 22, 267-74...early Tertiary lava pile of the Isle of Mull, Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 66
Report (issue)
Island which lies 162. 7 nau tical 1niles west of Sr Kilda in rhe north-east Arlanl'ic Ocean. The island is...photograph courtesy of Andy Strangeway (www.island-man.co. uk) BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BGS RESEARCH REPORT...fullest exrent permined by law. Keyworth, Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey 2013 Bibliographical...catalogue is available online from v,rww.bgs.ac. uk/catalogue. Chapter authors: The British Geological...1000 Fax 0131- 668 2683 e-mail: scorsales,@bgs.ac. uk J2 10 11 Introduction 1-litchen, K 1 Structure
Report (edition)
Geology The Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland FOURTH EDITION CH Emeleus BR Bell Contributor:...geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland (Fourth edition). (British Geological Survey,...licence number I 000 I 789712005. Printed in the UK b>f Hawthornes, Nottingham C/0 7105 Authors CH Emeleus...oftlie oldest Palaeogene igneous rocks in the Hebrides, wl,ereas the Sgurr ofEigg Pitcl,stone Formation...and older structures 41 Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic st ructu res 42 5 Palaeogene igneous geology: regional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology: The Palaeogene Volcanic Districts of Scotland (4th edition). 2005. By C.H. Emeleus and B.R.... Bell, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK. Available online at http://shop.bgs. ac.uk/bookshop/...unconformity may be at Siccar Point on the east coast of Scotland, but earlier, in 1787, he had described one on...is one of twenty such regional guides covering the UK, and the only one not to cover a single contiguous...of the Inner Hebrides, plus Arran, St Kilda, and Rockall, and bits of mainland Scotland. Despite this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evolution of the Tertiary Mull Volcano, Western Scotland 1 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER...LEICESTER, UNIVERSITY ROAD, LEICESTER LE1 7RH, UK 2 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, KINGS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF...2LS, UK 3 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, NORTH HAUGH, ST ANDREWS KY16 9ST, UK RECEIVED...1998 The early Tertiary Mull volcano, western Scotland, is one of the most dissected and best exposed...Cambridge CB2 1PF, UK. ‡Present address: Cairn Energy, 50 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BYL, UK. formation of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JW Abstract A new compositional variety...mosaics of colourless Mg-sapphirine, enstatite, spinel and minor phlogopite, all with XMg[100 x Mg/ (Mg...metamorphic textures involving sapphirine, enstatite and spinel. These features include interstitialxenomorphic...euhedral spinel and titanian enstatite (Fig. 2a), titanian-sapphirine euhedra and overgrowths on spinel, platey...subhedral spinel (Spl), enstatite (En) ,and titanian sapphirine (Ti-Spr) growing on spinel in the left
Report (issue)
the Mesozoic sedimentary basins off north-west Scotland (McQuillin and Binns, 19 73). Precambrian granulite...presently exposed in the Outer Hebrides and in the Scourian terrains of north-west Scotland. At a second locality...Tertiary igneous activity in the area from the Hebrides to Greenland has been linked with the rifting...Plateau, in the Rockall Trough and west of the Hebrides (Roberts, 1970; Bullerwell, 1972; Scrutton, 1972)...Faeroe Ridge George Bligh Bank HT LB RBk W-TR 5 Hebrides Terrace Seamount Lousy Bank Rosemary Bank Wyville-Thomson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iu Alttv.liu G.rs-bheiM sf II Rfng fucrite .nd Outer G.bbrol:dou fndiute ott-er g.btrOI Ttrti.ry l.yU...CONE/SHEETS COIRE UAIGNEICH and other GRANITES INTRUSIVE} OUTER COMPLEX THOLEIITES MAIN RIDGE COMPLEX DRUIM NAN...episodes) DY KES (four episodes) RING EUCRITE and OUTER GABBRO ?EARLYGRANITES' I. Names are those suggested...(-magnetite) orthocumulatesJ mesocumulates olivine (-spinel) adcumulales, olivine-plagioclase heteradcumulates...and by extrapolating from this and the present outer contacts it appears that the complex originally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(garnet, kaersutite, jadeite, orthoclase, chromite, spinel, tephroite, gahnite, samarskite) have been used... phlogopite, chlorite (clinochlore), ilmenite, spinel, apatite, and various humite minerals. Most metacarbonates...zirconolite + ilmenite + phlogopite + clinopyroxene_ spinel + chlorite + apatite +__ olivine + calcite + dolomite...of Rhum, Inner Hebrides, Scotland (Williams, 1978); pegrnatites of St Kilda, Scotland (Harding et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ages of the Igneous Rocks in the Western Isles of Scotland ................................................those here described from the Western Isles of Scotland that I must refer to it at somewhat greater length;...particles of hmmatite, and more rarely crystals of spinel. Besides the glass there are dull, undefinable...Tertiary granitic rocks of Skye, Mull, Rum, and St. Kilda, with their southern developments in Arran and...of acid rocks of Tertiary age as developed in Scotland, the study of which has occupied much of my time
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Santorini I., iron oxide mineralogy, 89 Aegirine, Scotland, in trachyte, 399 /~kKERBLOM,G. V., see WILSON...ALDERTON, D. H. M., see RANKIN, A. H., 179 Allanite, Scotland, 445 Aluminosilicate-sodalites, X-ray study, 459...Ardaite, Bulgaria, new mineral, 357 Arfvedsonite, Scotland, in trachyte, 399 ARVlN, M., pumpellyite in basic...iron-formation assemblage, 127 Barium silicates, Scotland, in stratabound mineralization, 63 BARLEY, M....Charnockite, Sweden, K-feldspars from, 247 Chevkinite, Scotland, 445 Childrenite, SW England, 119 Chlorite, identification
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, OLD ABERDEEN AB24 3UE, UK 2 DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY...GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, GLASGOW G12 8QQ, UK 3 ISOTOPE GEOSCIENCES UNIT, SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES...REACTOR CENTRE, EAST KILBRIDE, GLASGOW G75 0QF, UK RECEIVED SEPTEMBER 24, 1997; REVISED TYPESCRIPT...basement rocks around Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Many of the sheets are highly xenolithic, containing...selvages of plagioclase, corundum and aluminous spinel. The plagioclase is highly calcic (up to An87)
Report (edition)
Geological Survey and Museum BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY SCOTLAND: THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS (THIRD EDITION) EDINBURGH...Geological Survey and Museum BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY Scotland: The Northern Highlands By J. Phemister, M.A...Peach and J. Home, ‘Chapters on the Geology of Scotland’ (Oxford University Press), 1930. The illustrations...Highlands .. Section across the northern mainland of Scotland. Section across the Loch Maree belt of paragneiss...HIGHLANDS I. INTRODUCTION The Northern Highlands of Scotland is the region which lies west of the Great Glen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 2 Isotope Geosciences Unit, Scottish Universities...and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 OQU, UK (Received 11 March 1993; revised typescript accepted...Complex of the Skye Intrusive Centre, north-west Scotland (Bell & Harris, 1986). These data constitute the...extends from Skye, south, along the west coast of Scotland, into Ireland (Fig. 1). The Province may be correlated...comprises the eucrites (bytownite troctolites) of the Outer Layered Series. These eucrites can be traced, clockwise
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF Š 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Report (issue)
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • (B)-SCOTLAND: • • 1. South Lowlands District • • • • 2. North...nineteenth century. In Scotland all that now remains to be surveyed are the Outer Hebrides and 1030 sq. miles...area of a one-inch sheet is 2 16 sq. miles, in Scotland is is 432 sq. miles. Not only is the 'Solid' geology...one-inch sheets in England and Wales and ten in Scotland. From examination of goniatites and spores in...recently drilled boreholes in the Midland Valley of Scotland, evidence has now been found of middle Millstone
Book (edition)
VICTORIA LIBRARY . THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND • THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND Edited by GORDON Y. CRAIG Senior...1965 PREFACE The last book on the geology of Scotland was published 120 years ago. This may seem surpr...geology. With this early impetus to the science Scotland has emerged as one of the classical geological...Undoubtedly the initiator of geological thought in Scotland was James Hutton (1726-97). He and his friends...geologist who spent much of his time travelling about Scotland. From Boue's pen came the first book on Scottish
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...and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I. THE GROWTH AND ST RUCTURE OF SCOTLAND The formation of the crystalline craton...division The Scourian complex The mainland belt The Hebrides Lewisian in the Caledonides The Loch Maree series...The mainland belt The Hebrides Lewisian in the Caledonides The Outer Hebrides thrust-zone The Lewisian
Report (edition)
RESEARCH COUNCIL British Regional Geo·logy ■ I of Scotland FOURTH EDITION Front cover Suilven Sutherland...British Regional Geology The Northern Highlands of Scotland FOURTH EDITION G S Johnstone, BSc and W Mykura...8270 ~ 020 7942 5344/45 e-mail: bgslondon@bgs.ac. uk The British Geological Survey carries out the geolog·ical...British regional g·eology:the 1VorthernHighlands of Scotland ( 4th edition). (Nottingham: British Geological...Lewisian: Foreland Lewisian; The Mainland, The Hebrides; Levvisian inliers east of the Moine Thrust Torridonian:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
­REE2O3, 0.596 apfu REE) creates thin rims around spinel and magnetite grains, whereas zirconolite enriched...types, or as thin rims decorating magnetite and spinel grains in magnetite-forsterite rocks (Fig. 1e)...aggregates at surface of magnetite grains with spinel (sp) exsolutions decorated by tiny geikielite (gei)...Langesundfjord, Norway (Brøgger 1890); Glen Dessarry, Scotland (Fowler and Williams 1986); Arbarastakh, Russia...and Cottin 1987); Rhum, Scotland (Fowler and Williams 1986); St. Kilda, Scotland (Fowler and Williams 1986)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage (olivine – orthopyroxene – chromian spinel) in a fresh and coarse-grained recrystallized harzburgite...residual assemblage (olivine, orthopyroxene, chromian spinel) attributed to extraction of about 18% MORBlike...and consist of an internal core of coarse-grained spinel (up to 1 cm across) intergrown with 20 to 50 vol...with margins of alternating bands of fine-grained spinel and silicates. The contacts with the enclosing...reported in the tables. The proportion of Fe3+ in spinel phases was calculated assuming the stoichiometry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as accessory phases in a metasomatically altered spinel-calcite-marble from the contact with the Bergell...relationships indicate a stepwise alteration of spinel to 1) hoegbomite or corundum + magnetite, 2) margarite...margarite and 3) chlorite. Replacement of spinel by hoegbomite can be described by the substitution 1...composition of pre-existing spinel. During the first two steps of spinel alteration, calcite was replaced...minerals and hoegbomite during replacement of the spinel-calcite-marble indicates that the metamorphic fluid
Book
mark the eastern, feather-edge of the Sea of the Hebrides Basin. Sandstones, shales and limestones of shallow-marine....Jl1rassic age; they fo1TI1 part of the Inner Hebrides Basin deposits. Upper Creta­ ceous sandstone and...TRIBUTORS Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 60 (Scotland) Stratigraphy and sedi1nentology ,J D Hudso11...Kilbride R C Greenwood, PhD formerly University of St Andrews M J Gallagher, BSc, PhD, FIMM, CEng late...egional Report No. 4 The geology of the Malin-Hebrides sea area, 1 993 JVJ.emoirs The Tertiary igneot1s
Book
BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geology of the Outer Hebrides • ·---. �-·-- . - · --•- •' ' ' ; I .,...of the Outer Hebrides Thrust in southern North Uist. (D 3197) , Geology of the Outer Hebrides The Outer...Outer Hebrides or Long Island form a 210 km long archi­ pelago on the north western seaboard of Scotland...with the Scourie dykes of mainland north-west Scotland. In southern South Harris a suite of gabbro, anor­...'cataclastic' gneiss is recorded in rocks within the Outer Hebrides Thrust zone, which runs down the eastern edge
 
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