 | Coats, J. S., Shaw, M. H., Smith, R. T., Rollin, K. E., Smith, C. G., Fortey, N. J. (1996) Mineral exploration for gold and base metals in the Lewisian and associated rocks of the Glenelg area north-west Scotland. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report 140. British Geological Survey | Report (issue) |
| exploration for gold and base metals in the Lewisian and associated rocks of the Glenelg are.cďż˝. north-west...north-west Scotland Department of Trade and Industry MRP Report 140 Mineral exploration for gold and base...metals in the Lewisian and associated rocks of the Glenelg area, north-west Scotland J S Coats, M H Shaw...Shaw, R T Smith, K E Rollin, C G Smith and N J Fortey BRITISH GEOLOCICAL SURVEY Mineral Reconnaissance...gold and base metals in the Lewisian and associated rocks of the Glenelg area, north-west Scotland J S |
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| Glaciation; deposits of till, morainic drift and fluvioglacial sand and gravel I Basic dykes TERTIARY • CRETACEOUS...Porphyrite, felsite, microdiorite and lamprophyre dykes DEVONIAN Ratagain Plutonic Complex (425 ± 3 Ma)...microdiorite and appinite minor intrusions Caledonian Orogeny: polyphase deformation and metamorphism...CAMBRIAN Pegmatite and ap]ite Intrusion of basic sills PROTEROZOIC Metamorphism and deformation (750-1000...siltstones and mudstones ARCHAEAN to Evolution of the Lewisian complex, metamorphosed igneous and sedimentary |
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| Geological Society of London. Observations on eclogite- and granulite-facies rocks in the basement of the... Sanders SUMMARY: Eclogite-facies metamorphism in the Glenelg inlier, NW Scotland, occurred after a phase...phase of basic dyke intrusion (?Scourie dykes), and before a period of ?Caledonian mylonitisation. It...conditions of metamorphism estimated as 750-600°C and 10-15 kb, suggest that the inlier is an upthrust...evidence relating to the age and origin of the eclogite at Glenelg in NW Scotland; it also comments briefly |
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| SCIENCES Geological Survey and Museum BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY SCOTLAND: THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS (THIRD...SCIENCES Geological Survey and Museum BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY Scotland: The Northern Highlands By...Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology with Overseas Geological Surveys and is a constituent...Survey, who have freely offered new information and helpful criticism. Dr. Pringle has rendered assistance...almost all the maps in the text, but in Figs. 8 and 18 geological lines have been taken from maps which |
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| Grenville-age eclogite facies metamorphism and amphibolite facies retrogression of the Glenelg–Attadale Inlier...Inlier, NW Scotland C. D. STOREY*†, T. S. BREWER* & S. TEMPERLEY* *Department of Geology, University...Leicester LE1 7RH, UK (Received 1 July 2004; accepted 28 April 2005) Abstract – Peak and retrograde P–T...eclogites from the Glenelg–Attadale Inlier of the northwest Highlands of Scotland are presented. Peak...Peak conditions are estimated as c. 20 kbar and 750–780 ◦ C, in broad agreement with previous work. The |
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| GEOLOGICAL AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SURVEY AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY SCOTLAND: THE NORTHERN...Physical Features: Scenery . . Summary of the Geology and Table of Formations LEWISIAN GNEISS Paragneiss of...Lewisian Inliers in the Moine Schists Foliation and Prc-Torridonian Movements MOINE SERIES The Moine...NEWER IGNEOUS ROCKS Loch Loyal Syenites Foliated Lamprophyre Ach’uaine Hybrid and Appinite Suite Gran...INTRUSIONS MESOZOIC AND TERTIARY Trias Jurassic Cretaceous Tertiary FAULTS PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT Glacial |
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| North-West of Scotland 11-18 September 1971 Report by the Directors: A. J. BARBER and N. J. SOPER Received...Summer Field Meeting in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, 11-18 September 1971. Proc, Geol. Ass., 84 (2)...week's Field Meeting in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. The main purpose of the Meeting was to visit...structure of the Eriboll, Assynt and Lochalsh areas is described in some detail and a running commentary is provided...results of recent work in the Moine Thrust Belt and adjacent parts of the Caledonian Mountain Belt in |
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| Geo·logy ■I of Scotland FOURTH EDITION Front cover Suilven Sutherland. 'Rocky Ridge and boggy hollow~...north-east from near Kylesku across Loch Glencoul to Aird na Loch. (D2820) (frontispiece) BRITISH GEOLOGICAL...The Northern Highlands of Scotland FOURTH EDITION G S Johnstone, BSc and W Mykura, DSc NOTTINGHAM,...available from the BGS Sales Desks at Nottingham and Edinburgh; see contact details below or shop online...Survey ptiblisl1es an annual catalogue of its maps and other pttblications; this catalogue is available |
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| 227–247 Late-Proterozoic tectonics in northwest Scotland: one contractional orogeny or several? C.D. Storeya...Leicester LE1 7RH, UK b NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratories, c/o BGS, Keyworth, Notts NG12 5GG, UK Received 2...2004 Abstract The Glenelg-Attadale Inlier of the northwest Highlands of Scotland comprises a Western...TrondhjemiteTonalite-Granodiorite (TTG) gneisses and subordinate mafic bodies and an Eastern Unit (EU) containing abundant...mafic rocks (eclogite), minor ultrabasic bodies and manganiferous metasedimentary rocks and marbles intercalated |
 | Clifford, T. N., Rex, D. C., Green, R., le Roex, A. P., Pienaar, H. S., BĂĽhmann, D. (1999) Chromian illite-ankerite-quartz parageneses from the Kintail district of southern Ross-shire, Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine, 63 (1) 37-52 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| parageneses from the Kintail district of southern Ross-shire, Scotland T. N. CLIFFORD1, D. C. REX2, R. GREEN2,... A. P. LE ROEX 3, H. S. PIENAAR4 AND D. BOHMANN5 tDepartment of Geology, University of the Witwatersrand...2Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK 3Department of Geological Sciences, University of...3 wt.% Cr20> low K20 (7.1 7.6 wt.%) and high H20+ (5.7 wt.%), and it is a 1M polytype with ~<10% of an...high concentrations of Ni and Cr, and show low concentrations of Ti, Nb, Y and Zr, suggesting a tbrmer |
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| Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Contrib Mineral Petrol (1986) 94:507-522 9 Springer-Verlag...Springer-Verlag 1986 Subduction-related shoshonitic and ultrapotassic magmatism: a study of Siluro-Ordovician syenites...Caledonides R.N. Thompson and M.B. Fowler Department of Geology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London...London, SW7 2BP, UK Abstract. Syenites are important or predominant components of several plutonic complexes...complexes, emplaced between 456 and 415 Ma along the N W margin of the Caledonian orogenic belt, adjacent |
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| Experimental Study of Natural and Synthetic Rock Systems by H. s. YODER, JR., and c. E. TILLEY Geophysical...Australia on August 3, 2012 ABSTRACT Natural basalts and eclogites were investigated experimentally at a series...temperatures in the pressure range 1 atm to 40 kb and with water pressures 1 to 10 kb. Some runs were also...at 10 and 33 kb. The two principal magma types recognized by field investigators—tholeiite and alkali...bulk composition. The melting behavior of basalts and eclogites indicates that both are the partial melting |
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| MAGAZINE AND JOURNAL OF T H E MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY No. 154 September, 1936 Vol. XXIV Eulysites and related...types from Loch Duich, Ross-shire. By C. E. TILLEY, Ph.D., B.Sc. Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology...of eulysites and related rocks from among Lewisian rocks of the Glenelg area, Scotland. The rocks shortly...come from the vicinity of Totaig on Loch Duich between Totaig and Letterfearn, little more than half a...a mile from the first described occurrence of eclogite in Britain. 1 These eulysitic rocks crop out on |
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| PO~T,ARU O~ seizer. [Aug. I899 ~ 24. On SPr~-E~ and FORSTERITE from the GL~.N~T.O LI~ESTO~-S (I~-w~N~SS-SHIRE)...(I~-w~N~SS-SHIRE). By C. T. CLOUOH,Esq., M.A., F.G.S., and. W. POT.T.ARD,M.A., Ph.D., F.G.S. (Read April 12th...minerals--forsterite and true spinel--which are found in close association in a limestone in Glenelg (Inverness-shire)...do not appear to have been recorded hitherto in Scotland. Before tabulating the analyses, however, it may...about the limestone, and t o describe to some extent its geological position and chief characters. The |
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| Potassium-Argon Age Studies in Scotland By J. A. MILLER AND P. E. BROWN ABSTRACT New potassium-argon...million years is very important in the Highlands and the relationship of this to previous metamorphisms...emplacement took place about 400 million years ago and the Moine thrust movement also took place at about...ages compatible with the time scales of Kulp (1960) and Holmes (1959). Volcanic activity in Mull is confirmed...determinations on metamorphic and igneous rocks north of the Highland Boundary Fault and also of Carboniferous |
 | Sajeev, Krishnan, Kawai, Takahiro, Omori, Soichi, Windley, Brian F., Maruyama, Shigenori (2010) P–T evolution of Glenelg eclogites, NW Scotland: Did they experience ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism?. Lithos, 114 (3) 473-489 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.10.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| t e / l i t h o s P–T evolution of Glenelg eclogites, NW Scotland: Did they experience ultrahigh-pressure...Science, Bangalore 560 012, India Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology...Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...2009 Available online 20 October 2009 Keywords: Glenelg–Attadale Inlier Eclogites Exsolution microstructure...microstructure Phase diagram P–T condition Scotland a b s t r a c t Eclogites and their retrogressed equivalents |
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| Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Contrib Mineral Petrol (1988) 98:33 39 9 Springer-Verlag...breakdown and regeneration reactions in Grenville kyanite eclogite at Glenelg, NW Scotland I.S. Sanders...Dublin 2, Ireland Abstract. A rare type of eclogite at Glenelg contains finegrained, white streaks a b o...G a r n e t and omphacite bordering the streaks are relatively enriched in grossular and jadeite components...reacted with neighbouring garnet and omphacite during a period o f shearing and compression. P - T conditions |
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| Survey, Menlo Par\, Calif. Eclogites and Eclogites: Their Differences and Similarities Abstract: Eclogites...terrains in California and New Caledonia now permit comparisons among the three eclogite types. The pyrope...between coexisting garnet and pyroxene. The Ca/Mg ratio increases in garnet and decreases in pyroxene from...crystallization. Experimental synthesis of eclogite-like material at high pressures and temperatures demonstrates that...of an eclogite metamorphic facies. CONTENTS Introduction members for garnets in eclogites and related |
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| A Garnet-Hornblende-Pyroxene Rock from Glenelg, Inverness-shire By M. J. O'HARA ABSTRACT A garnet-hornblende-two...garnet-hornblende-two pyroxene rock from Glenelg is described. It is assigned to the eclogite facies by virtue of its...its density, mineral composition, and associations. Its chemical composition is that of a picrite-basalt...the partition of major and minor elements in these minerals at the eclogite and granulite facies of metamorphism...parageneses in basic and ultrabasic rocks of the eclogite facies is presented, and points of interest discussed |
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| by H. C. G. VINCENT,M.A. Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge. [Read June 24...ists, and hornblende-Garbenschiefer derived from sediments of the character of calcareous and dolomitic...examples come from the Alps--particularly the Triassic and preTriassic sediments on the south side of the St...appear as an essential or accessory constituent and is found often in juxtaposition with the large porphyroblasts...the Quartenschiefer of the Lukmanier region [2], and some members of the pre-Triassic Tremola series are |
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| evolution J. Wheeler, R. G. Park, H. R. Rollinson and A. Beach Geological Society, London, Special Publications...of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Jane Herdman Building, Liverpool University, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK 2 3 12...Ferguson Drive, Tain, Ross-shire, IV19 1RE, UK Department of Geographical, Earth and Environmental Sciences... Derby DE22 1GB, UK 4 Exploration Outcomes, 1 Huntly Gardens, Glasgow G12 9AS, UK *Corresponding author...Archaean/Proterozoic craton fragment found in NW Scotland and throughout the Outer Hebrides. The 1907 memoir |
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| To rectify the dearth of published petrographical and analytical data for Lewisian marbles, 307 samples...outcrops known, have been examined in thin section, and 114 samples analysed for 35 elements. Lewisian marbles...(generally white, pure to silicate-rich) eg from Glenelg; 2) microcrystalline (often coloured, ornamental...fine-grained, silicate-opaque-rich), eg from the Loch Maree Group (LMG). Lewisian marbles are geochemically...marbles from the South Harris and Coil foreland outcrops and from the Glenelg and Kintail inliers are dolostones |
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| Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 19, 169--176 (1968) Kyanite Eclogites ALEXANDER A. GODOVIKOV* and G~o~G~ C. KENNEDY...KENNEDY Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles Received...eelogites is sensitive to the ratio of CaO : MgO : FeO and that the reaction pyroxene + kyanite~ garnet + quartz...pressures in rocks rich in magnesium and to the left in rocks rich in calcium and iron. Typical basalts crystallized...high pressure never contain kyanite. The chemistry and mineralogy of a large number of naturally occurring |
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| Stratigraphy in the Western Highlands of Scotland by J. RAMSA Y and J. SPRING Received 28 April 1961; read...is made up of sed iments which have been folded and metamorphosed several time s during the Caledonian...Caledonian orogeny. In the Northern Highlands of Scotland there have been many attempts to establish the or iginal...successio n of the Mo inian rocks of Glenelg , Loch Ho urn and Kno ydart regions is presented based o...sists of six members , three of dominantly pelitic and three of psamm itic composi tion . Some suggestion |
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| 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 |
