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Augite from
Marsco, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marsco, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1090200
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1090200:8
GUID (UUID V4):61f44f4c-3f96-4198-adc3-d398fcbf15fc
Nearest other occurrences of Augite
3.3km (2.0 miles) Sgurr nan Gillean, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
5.4km (3.4 miles) Loch Coruisk, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) Meall a'Mhaoil, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
13.3km (8.3 miles) Ósgaig Sill, Raasay, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
30.9km (19.2 miles) Loch Hourn Complex, Highland, Scotland, UK
60.1km (37.4 miles) Ardnamurchan, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
60.9km (37.8 miles) Camphouse, Ardnamurchan, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
71.5km (44.4 miles) 'S Airde Beinn, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
91.4km (56.8 miles) Gribun dike, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
92.1km (57.2 miles) Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
1958) Noo 13: The Tertiary Igneous Geology of the Isle of Skye by G. M. BROWN, 1vith contributions by...Trottemish Southern and Western Cuillins Northern Skye Eastern Cu illins Wcs1ern Redhills References EDITED...sketch-maps are 110 evidence of existence of a right-of-way. The onus of obtaining permission to use tracks...rests 011 the user of the Guide. Any information (e.g. change or u11s11itability of footpaths, new expos11res...expos11res, filling in of q11arries) that will help to make this G11ide more serviceable will be welcomed
Book (chapter)
Province C. H. Emeleus Reader in Geology, University of Durham and M. C. Gyopari Senior Hydrogeologist,... References Agrell, S.O. (1965) Polythermal metamorphism of limestones at Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan. Mineralogical...structure and petrology of the Tertiary volcanic rocks of Eigg. Muck and Canna, N.W. Scotland. Unpublished M.Sc...University of Durham. Allwright, A.E. and Hudson, J.D. (1982) The Sgurr of Eigg. Journal of the Geological...Society of London, 139, p. 215 (abstract). Almond, D.C. ( 1960) The Tertiary igneous geology of Strathaird
Report (edition)
Regional Geology The Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland FOURTH EDITION CH Emeleus BR Bell Contributor:...regional geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland (Fourth edition). (British Geological Survey...Printed in the UK b>f Hawthornes, Nottingham C/0 7105 Authors CH Emeleus Department of Earth Sciences...University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH I 3LE BR Bell Division of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Glasgow, Gregory Building, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G 12 BQQ Contributor D Stephenson
Report (issue)
2Itbratg BOUGHT W[TH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF HENRY W. SAGE 1691 Cornell University...igneous rocl(S of Skye 3 1924 004 066 373 Cornell University Library The tine original of tiiis book...copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004066373... MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. THE TERTIARY IGNEOUS ROCKS OF SKYE. BY ALFRED...BT M.A., F.G.S. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY. GLASGOW :
Book (chapter)
Province C. H. Emeleus Reader in Geology, University of Durham and M. C. Gyopari Senior Hydrogeologist,... Chapter 2 The Isle of Skye Introduction INTRODUCTION Skye is one of the classic areas of Great Britain...Britain for the study of igneous geology. The sea cliffs and hills in the north of the island magnificently...succession of mainly basaltic lavas which overlie Mesozoic sediments intruded by a suite of dolerite sills...Basaltic dykes of the northwest-trending swarm cut all these rocks. The Cuillins and Red Hills of central Skye
Report (issue)
• \1ie,,r Llp Locl1 Corui k, sl10,,ri11g part of tl1c Ct1illi11 ra11gc. Tl1e mou11tai11s �ce11 a1·e...Sgi1rr Dt1bl1 Bl1eag i11 the foregrot111d; tl1e top of Sgi1rr Dearg (,\r jtl1 tl1e '' l11accessible l)i1111acle...tl1e brol,e11 rid 0·e of Sgi.1rr 11a l3cl11acl1dicl1; tl1e doL1ble sL11n111it of Sgi.11-r a' Gl1readaidl1...Gl1readaidl1 i11 t11e ce11tre; tl1e foL1r pc,ll'-:s of Sgt1rr a' l\111adaidl1; Bidei11 Druim r1a11 Raml1 (partl)r...\ra]le}'" 011 tl1e right. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICATj SURVEY OF THE UNITED I{INGDOll . ---=====· .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Isle of Skye J. D. BELL BELL, J. D. 1976. The Tertiary intrusive complex of the Isle of Skye. Proc...history of investigations into the nature of the Tertiary intrusive complex of the Isle of Skye is reviewed...centres of activity have now been identified and mapped in variable detail: these are, in order of chronological...centres. An assessment of the number and types of the constituent units of these foci of activity reveals a...geological map of central Skye. The origin of various rock-types is investigated in the light of chemical,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1984 Magma mixing: the Marsco suite, Isle of Skye, Scotland Thomas A. Vogel t, Leland W. Younker...proposed as a major mechanism for the origin of a wide variety of rock suites. In mid-ocean basalts there...obstacles to mixing because of the similarities in chemical and physical properties of the proposed end-members...present obstacles to mixing. The Marsco suite is ideal to evaluate the process of magma mixing because it is...is considered to be a classic example of magma mixing of diverse magma types and because compositionally
Report (edition)
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY SCOTLAND: THE TERTIARY VOLCANIC DISTRICTS (THIRD EDITION) EDINBURGH HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE...Districts, Scotland (Geol. Surv.) PLATE I (Frontispiece) A. THE CUILLIN HILLS AND BLAVEN, SKYE, FORMED...FORMED OF TERTIARY PLUTONIC ROCKS (GABBRO), FROM SOUTH-EAST Strathaird penninsula (middle distance) is composed...composed of Jurassic strata overlain by Tertiary basalt lavas and the nearer headland of Torridonian B
Report (edition)
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC GEOLOGICAL BRITISH AND SURVEY INDUSTRIAL AND REGIONAL RESEARCH MUSEUM...MUSEUM GEOLOGY SCOTLAND: THE TERTIARY VOLCANIC a DISTRICTS (THIRD EDITION) EDINBURGH HER MAJESTY’S...Districts, Scotland (Geo/. Surv.) PLATE I __ (Frontispiece) A. THE CUILLIN HILLS AND BLAVEN, SKYE, FORMED...FORMED OF TERTIARY PLUTONIC ROCKS (GABBRO), FROM SOUTH-EAST Strathaird penninsula (middle distance) is...is composed of Jurassic strata overlain by Tertiary basalt lavas and the nearer headland of Torridonian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Associated Rocks of the Eastern Part of the Western Redhills Complex, Isle of Skye. By J. D. Bell, Department...Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Parka Eoad, Oxford. Communicated by Professor F. H. STEWABT, P.R...the head of Loch Ainort and the northern end of the Blaven Range in central Skye forms part of a Tertiary...lavas which show the effects of thermal metamorphism by a later intrusion of eucrite and gabbro. This latter...latter, which is part of the Blaven mass, has features of a layered intrusion such as igneous lamination
Report (edition)
'"'"-~" '. . ' _The Tertiary Volcanic Districts of Scotland • • · • THIRD EQITION ""'" ".· '·. -~ ...lava Oow of the Mull Plateau Group (StafTa Suite). Massive, regular columns at the base of the flow are...are overlain by an upper tier of narrow, poorly developed irregular columns. The slaggy flow top is exposed...in the top right of the photograph. (D 2218) Tertiary Volcanic Districts, Scotland (Ceo!. Sure.) A...(Frontispiece) THE C-U ILLI N H ILLS AND BLAVEN, SKYE, FORMED OF TERTIARY PLUTONICROCKS (GABBRO), FROM SOUTH-EAST
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrogenesis of the Early Tertiary Lava Pile of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and other Basic Rocks of the British...an Example of Magma-Crust Interaction department of Geology & Mineralogy, University of Oxford, Oxford...Oxford 0X1 3PR, U.K. "'•Department of Geology, Imperial College, London SW7 2BP (Received 7 December 1978;...ABSTRACT Most of the flows in the Palaeocene lava pile remnant of Skye are members of the Skye Main Lava...comprising transitional basalts and two associated suites of evolved lavas. The first suite evolves through Fe-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ferrodiorite from the Isle of Skye. By L. R. WAOER and E. A. VINCENT Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy...an account of the marscoite suite of the Western Redhills Tertiary igneous centre of Skye, a description...here of one unit, the ferrodiorite. While accepting Harker's hypothesis of the hybrid origin of marscoite...with which marscoite on Marsco is associated, is not itself a hybrid, but one of the parents from which...mugearites, on the one hand, and with the ferrogabbros of the Skaergaard intrusion on the other, but is probably
Report (issue)
-... .,.. •. THE GEOLOGY . .' ..·... _ · . N OF . . . . .. . . .� . . ., . .. S··. . ....' . .. ". , .•. .,. . • Geology of Nortl1ern Skye (Mem. Geol. Surv.) A. PLATE I (Frontispiece)...THE SOUTH; PART OF THE TROTTERNISH LAVA-SCARP B. (D3172) LANDSLIP TOPOGRAPHY SOUTH OF FLODIGARRY HOTEL...INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN SCOTLAND The Geology...Geology of Northern Skye Explanatio11 of the Portree (80) and parts of the Rubha Hu1zis/1 (90), Applecross
Book (chapter)
Province C. H. Emeleus Reader in Geology, University of Durham and M. C. Gyopari Senior Hydrogeologist,...proportion of the total igneous activity that occurred during the Palaeocene—Eocene opening of the North...spectacular remnants of that activity in and around the central complexes and the majority of the sites described...surroundings. Nevertheless, a number of important aspects of the igneous geology of the Province occur elsewhere...a spectacular feature of the Province and examples of dense concentrations of dykes are described or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Askja 1875, Skye 56 Ma: Basalt-triggered, Plinian, Mixed-magma Eruptions during the Emplacement of the Western...Western Redhills Granites, Isle-of-Skye, Scotland By R. N. THOMPSON,London *) With 8 figures and 1 table...anzusehen. Die Eociinen Granite yon Western Redhills, Skye, Schottland, weisen auf eine zweimalige Mischung...published accounts of the chronology of various Plinian explosive eruptions, notably that of Askja, Iceland...1875, have stressed the role of basic magma injected into the lower parts of stagnant semi-crystalline magma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aspects of the origin of Hebridean Tertiary acid magmas. II. Experimental melting behaviour of the granites...kbar PH20 R. N. THOMPSON Department of Geology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London SW7...reported for three early Tertiary granites from Skye and one from Rhum, together with a quartz rnonzonite...high temperatures the morefusible crustal rock types of the region would be almost completely molten. If...they would inherit the incompatible element ratios of their sialic progenitors. This is demonstrably not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(21 ) II.—The History of Volcanic Action during the Tertiary Period in the British Isles. By ARCHIBALD...GEIKIE, LL.D., F.R.S., Director General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. (Plates I., II.)...Geographical Distribution, 2. Two Types of Protrusion, 3. Nature of Component Rocks, 1. External Characters...Breadth, - . 6. Interruptions of Lateral Continuity, 7. Length, 8. Persistence of Mineral Characters, . . ...Intersection of Dykes—Repeated Dykes in the same Line of Fissure, 15. Contact-Metamorphism, 16. Relation of Dykes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Petrology of Some Volcanic Rocks from the British Tertiary Province: The Islands of Rhum, Eigg, Canna...hypersthene. They have anomalously low concentrations of Rb, Sr and K20 compared to Tertiary tholeiites from...and contain both augite and hypersthene, in contrast to the normal one-pyroxene rocks of the alkali basalt-trachyte...closer affinities to the icelandites, the presence of basic plagioclase xcnocrysts suggesting an hybrid...plagioclase are involved in the low-pressure fractionation of the transitional basalts, whereas pyroxene and titanomagnetie
Book (edition)
years, when he lived in Edinburgh under the shadow of Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano. After a good Scots...the University of Edinburgh, before undertaking research on the metamorphic rocks of the southwest Highlands...Highlands of Scotland. He then spent three years in the Middle East, teaching geology at universities...every summer to studying the rocks of the Highlands for a series of scientific papers, while teaching...structural geology and field-mapping at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He took early retirement in
Book (volume)
00054083 NOT OUT TO OF BE THE ISSUED L BRARY. BOMBAY BRANCH OP THE S iROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY...2019 THE ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF GREAT BRITAIN THE ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF GREAT BRITAIN BY SIR ARCHIBALD...DIREOTOR-GENERAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ; CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE...FRANCE OF THE ACADEMIES OF BERLIN, VIENNA, MUNICH, TURIN, BELGIUM, STOCKHOLM, GOTTINGEN, NEW YORK J OF THE...THE IMPERIAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY. AND SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS ST. PETERSBURG ; NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Book
Anderson Emeritus Professor of Geology, University College, Cardiff, UK PERGAMON PRESS QE 2fcl ASI7...vj* v Srt Cl 26 PERGAMON INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY of Science, Technology, Engineering and Social Studies...paperback library in aid of education, industrial training and the enjoyment of leisure Publisher: Robert...TEXTBOOK INSPECTION COPY SERVICE An inspection copy of any book published in the Pergamon International...recommendation. Copies may be retained for a period of 60 days from receipt and -eturned if not suitable
Book (edition)
HIGHLAND GEOLOGY TRAIL The very best localities in the Highlands, described simply for the visitor,...the nature of the underlying geology. JOHN e INVERNESS ULLAPOOL e ASSYNT e FORT ISLE OF SKYE WRATH CAPE...OBAN WILLIAM HIGHLAND GEOLOGY TRAIL By JOHN L. ROBERTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Nae of tne Geological ReCONd...st'yaeWecntiy.OF LOCIIAISIS 66 “A EVENTS 1 Spe apne yal Soiace...4XR CODE Geologising like any in the outdoor OF CONDUCT field is not activity. The IN THE without
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ubekmdt Ejland, , ~ Greenland. of the ~ k Pa!aeocene ,lume ~ t of pheno:cmpact ~treous matrix £s. The...hydro)r elemm~ chemistry of alyscs of ~(s constituent a surface expression of source could have been an...an early acid member of the curreatly-atposed Sarq&ta qlqA plutonic comnla. Recent Rb/Sr isotopic studies...studies have shown that the acid and basic rocks of this intrusive centre. together with the surrounding...initial 8'SrP6Sr ratio of 0.7045. appropriate to the upper mantle. The ultimate source of the Ubekendt Ejland
 
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