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Spinel lherzolite from
Fidra, East Lothian, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Island
Classification
Type:Spinel lherzolite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel lherzolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fidra, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1232462
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1232462:0
GUID (UUID V4):bb13343a-cbe1-4606-91ee-23ce902657fb
References
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The Weaklaw Vent, SE Scotland: Post-eruptive metasomatism of eruptive products by carbo-hydro-fluids...University of Edinburgh, West Mains Rd., EH9 3FE, UK. 2 Centre for Exploration Geoscience, Applied Geosciences...Society, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK. 3 Institute of Geological Sciences, University... The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH. UK. 7 Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish...uc.uk Abstract. The Weaklaw vent in SE Scotland (East Lothian coast), inferred to be Namurian, produced
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mafic and ultramafic xenoliths from Fidra ĆŸSouthern Uplands, Scotland /: implications for lithospheric processes...UniÕersity of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK Department of Geology and Geophysics, UniÕersity...of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK c Department of Geology, Royal Holloway UniÕersity...UniÕersity of London, Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX, UK Received 25 July 2000; accepted 29 June 2001 Abstract Several...Permian basanite sill in Fidra, eastern central Scotland. One group consists of spinel lherzolites, which have
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2015 Carboniferous and Permian magmatism in Scotland B. G. J. U P T O N 1, D. S T E P H E N S O N 2...of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK (e-mail." bupton@glg.ed.ac.uk) 2British Geological...EH9 3LA UK 3British Geological Survey, Maclean Building, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OXIO 8BB, UK Abstract:...Isles, with accompanying basaltic magmatism. In Scotland Dinantian magmatism was dominantly mildly alkalinetransitional...dyke swarm and sills across northern England and Scotland. Alkali basaltic magmatism persisted into the
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from the Permo-Carboniferous magmatic province in Scotland - no evidence for a lower-mantle plume L. A. K...of Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK Abstract: Noble gas studies of well-characterized spinel-peridotite-facies lithospheric...and vents demonstrate that the mantle beneath Scotland during the late Palaeozoic was more radiogenic...undegassed plume-type mantle beneath this part of Scotland during the Permo-Carboniferous. The measured helium...Variscan orogenesis (Fig. 1) (Timmerman 2004). In Scotland, Carboniferous lavas are preserved primarily in
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1007/s00710-018-0610-y ORIGINAL PAPER The mantle of Scotland viewed through the Glen Gollaidh aillikite Mark...Gollaidh aillikite dyke (58.36741°N 4.69751°W), N.W. Scotland, occurs within the Neoproterozoic sedimentary...sedimentary rocks of the Moine Supergroup ~4 km east of the Moine Thrust. Phlogopite 40Ar/36Ar measurements give...intra-plate alkali magmatism which affected southern Scotland for ~60 My from c. 350 Ma. Abundant chromites...the Moine thrust, is therefore inferred to extend east at depth under Glen Gollaidh, presenting an opportunity
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Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK. School of Geography and Geosciences, University...Andrews, Irvine Building, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, UK 3 Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological...Na-rich feldspar megacrysts are common associates of spinel lherzolitic and pyroxenitic xenoliths in Scottish...of salic glass ‘pockets’, well known from spinel lherzolite xenoliths around the world. Not only are there...1. Map showing the ïŹve structural terranes in Scotland and xenolith-megacryst localities. LR, Loch Roag:
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mantle composition in the southern half of Ireland (East Avalonia) is relatively and uniformly fertile (i...Lo r ste n i Le IS Z p ram Varisc a n fron t East Avalonian Terrane Fig. 1. Elevation map of Ireland...compilation of offshore deep seismic reïŹ‚ection data in the UK and surrounding areas (BIRPS data set, Chadwick and...southern part of the Irish Sea between Ireland and the UK, 10 s in the center, and 9.5 s in the northern part...large scale ïŹ‚ood basalts (Northern Ireland and Scotland mainly) followed (Preston, 2009; Welford et al
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beneath Scotland 1 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH EH9 3JW, UK 2...SCIENCE AND COMPUTING, LUTON UNIVERSITY, LUTON LU1 3JU, UK 3 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, UNIVERSITY...WORDS: anorthoclase; corundum; mantle; megacrysts; Scotland ∗Corresponding author. INTRODUCTION This paper...composition. In Scotland the localities define a broad swath extending from NE Scotland, around the Hebrides...localities in the north east of the Scottish Midland Valley and (d) localities in the north east of the Southern
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described in this memoir includes that part of the East Lothian roast from Cockcnzic to North Berw ick and extends...and part of Sheet 4 1 of the geological n1ap of Scotland. Thr introductory chapter outli nes the physical...British Regional Geology .. The Midland Valley of Scotland, 3rd Edition, 1985 Memoirs The geology of the...43 Early volcan1c1ty 44 North Be[v\,ick Member 44 East Linton Member 46 Hail es Member 48 Bangley Member...Calciferous Sand'itone Measures in Midlothian and East Lothian J 7 VI 8 Generalised map of the Calciferous
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mantlederived spinel lherzolite nodules. Notable occurrences are Kakanui (Dickey, 1968), south-east Australia...monchiquitic body associated with tuff-pipes in Fife, Scotland, are well-preserved euhedral crystals; one of...basaltic volcanics of Fife c o n t a i n b o t h spinel lherzolite inclusions a n d a suite of c u m u l a t...a n o r t h o c l a s e megacrysts a n d spinel lherzolite a n d g a b b r o inclusions. The most evolved...(Laughlin et al., 1971; AWL-21-69) Analcime basanite, Fidra Island, Lothians (Chapman, 1974; Anal. 45) 32
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for melting and metasomatism beneath Northern Scotland HANNAH S. R. HUGHES1,*,{, IAIN MCDONALD1, JOHN...CF10 3AT, UK Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK School of Geosciences...Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck...University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK [Received 30 October 2014; Accepted 2 February 2015;...from the North Atlantic Craton (NAC) in northern Scotland, to establish the magmatic and metasomatic history
Report (chapter)
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, UK 3 Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen...King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK Abstract: Mantle xenoliths entrained in late Carboniferous...mid-Permian silica-poor basic magmas from northern Scotland were investigated using major and trace element...subduction event in the geological history of Scotland is at about 400 Ma. It may have been during this...time have been investigated through a study of spinel peridotite xenoliths in late Carboniferous– early
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xenoliths: Group I xenoliths are spinel lherzolites, Group II xenoliths are spinel-garnet clinopyroxenites, and...represented by garnet-free gabbroids. The spinel lherzolite xenoliths represent the uppermost lithospheric...characteristics similar to those of primitive mantle. Spinel-garnet clinopyroxenite and gabbroic xenoliths are...xenoliths in both the dikes are the same comprising spinel lherzolites, garnetbearing and garnet-free clinopyroxenites...Geology SB RAS, Novosibirsk. Trace elements for 4 lherzolite samples, 1 pyroxenite and 8 gabbro xenoliths
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
almost all the extant data to ïŹrst order includes a spinel-peridotite upper lithospheric mantle layer to 85...chemical discontinuity (MLD) at the base of the Spinel Peridotite zone may explain the observed discontinuity...km in width, closed in a zipper-like fashion from east to west (present day coordinates) bringing together...The suture has been well studied geologically in Scotland and Newfoundland, where exposure is excellent...recently, helium-isotope information gleaned from spinel pyroxenites from the mid-Eocene (42 Ma) xenolith-bearing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Differentiation is mainly related to fractionation of Cr-spinel and olivine, but mixing with coeval granitic magmas...much more uncommon, having been described only in Scotland (Downes et al., 2001) and in the French Massif...exceeds 13% in modal composition, may include Cr-spinel, and is often mantled by orthopyroxene. Some orthopyroxene...058 0.001 0.000 4.000 Plagioclase 108604 Cr-Spinel 107042 107038 108595 108588 107042 107057...F) for amphibole and 32 O for plagioclase and Cr-Spinel Si 6.376 7.209 6.948 6.314 8.736 11.316 Ti 0.460
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PANKHURST (UK) Society Books Editors JOHN GREGORY (UK) JIM GRIFFITHS (UK) JOHN HOWE (UK) PHIL LEAT (UK) NICK...NICK ROBINS (UK) JONATHAN TURNER (UK) Society Books Advisors MIKE BROWN (USA) ERIC BUFFETAUT (FRANCE )...is Registered Charity 210161. The Society is the UK national learned and professional society for geology...fifth of the Society’s fellowship resides outside the UK. To find out more about the Society, log on to www...uk. The Geological Society Publishing House (Bath, UK) produces the Society’s international journals and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
London, Department of Geology, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK Received 27 February 2008; accepted in revised form...garnet (0.72– 0.85)), high Cr# (Cr/(Cr + Al)) of spinel (0.53–0.84) and mostly low whole-rock SiO2, CaO...compared with the well-studied harzburgite and lherzolite xenoliths from the same locality, which gives...et al., 2004), and the Witwatersrand Block to the east, were juxtaposed close to the Colesberg Lineament...Kaapvaal Craton into the Witwatersrand Block to the east and the Kimberley Block to the west. The Kaapvaal
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GöncĂŒoglu Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey e-mail:...Neotethyan suture is characterized by two major east-west trending belts of variably disrupted fragments...the Kurancali ultramafic-mafic cumulate body from east of Kaman has reserved a specific interest by its...Massif, NAFZ: North Anatolian Faults Zone, EAFZ: East Anatolian Fault Zone, IAES: Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan...Pyroxenite–Dunite Plutonic Complex, Koryak Highland (Far East Russia). J Petrol 46:1345–1366 BĂ©ziat D, Bourges
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informa business © 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK Typeset by MPS Limited (A Macmillan Company), Chennai...explored in more detail are minerals from garnet and spinel lherzolites, proper and harzburgites represented...minerals (olivine, clinopyroxene, garnet, amphibole, spinel, feldspar, phlogopite, apatite, sphene, rutile...and the rocks usually contain accessory chrome-spinel. In nearly all massifs, dunites have to some extent...of dunites from the Kosvinsky, Sakharinsky, and East Khabarninsky mafic–ultramafic massifs, all of which
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Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...problem Arthur W. G. Kingsbury wus born in 1906 at East Meon, Hampshire. He received a classical education
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..................................... 868 IV.2. East Kalimantan Cenozoic Basins, (bio-)stratigraphy ........................... 1363 VII.1. Banda Sea, East Banda Arc (incl. Tanimbar, Kai, Aru) .............................. 2140 IX.11. Papua New Guinea (East New Guinea main island) ..........................include: - Directions: N, S, E, W = North, South, East, West - Journals: J. = Journal, Bull. = Bulletin...jpg) (‘Geological overview map of the Netherlands East Indies’. First geological overview map of Indonesia
 
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