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Zircon from
Isle of Eigg, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Isle of Eigg, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:161595
Long-form Identifier:1:3:161595:1
GUID (UUID V4):908a8323-3a0e-4608-acfe-bc64c49a4dbc
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
28.7km (17.8 miles) Loch Sunart, Highland, Scotland, UK
35.0km (21.7 miles) Beinn an Dubhaich, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
36.5km (22.7 miles) Marble quarries, Kilchrist, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
38.0km (23.6 miles) Coire Gorm, Broadford, Isle Of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
39.2km (24.4 miles) Marsco, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
40.6km (25.2 miles) Eas a Bradain, Luib, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
40.9km (25.4 miles) Bruach Nam Bo, Luib, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
41.6km (25.8 miles) Strontian, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
44.1km (27.4 miles) Glamaig, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
47.9km (29.8 miles) Glen Dessary syenite intrusion, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Laig Gorge Beds, Isle of Eigg By J. D. HUDSON (With an appendix on the foraminifera by C. G. Adams...ABSTRACT Some rocks exposed near Laig Farm, Isle of Eigg, have previously been referred to the Upper...be Upper Cretaceous, their petrology described, and their stratigraphical significance discussed. Evidence...Corallian of North-West Scotland does not exist. INTRODUCTION AND PREVIOUS WORK IN the Isle of Eigg, to the...the south of Skye in the Inner Hebrides, sedimentary rocks of Jurassic and Upper Cretaceous age are overlain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rapid formation of the Small Isles Tertiary centre constrained by precise 40Ar/39Ar and U–Pb ages L.M....Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK b NERC...Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK c Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre...0QF, UK d Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK Received...chronology of magmatic and tectonic events is key to an understanding of the influence of the Iceland
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lyellcollection.org/ at University of Arizona on June 9, 2015 The diagenesis of the Great Estuarine Group, Middle...Middle Jurassic, Inner Hebrides, Scotland J. D. Hudson & J. E. Andrews S U M M A R Y: The Bathonian Great...Great Estuarine Group consists of sandstones, silty shales and mainly shelly limestones, deposited in...lack of intense early diagenesis or deep-burial diagenesis, and are thus suitable for the study of shallow-burial...schizohaline 'algal marsh' settings and dolomite formed in response to evaporation of low-salinity lagoonal waters
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Petrology of the Sandstones of the Great Estuarine Series, and the Jurassic Palaeogeography of Scotland by J...1964 CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF STRATIGRAPHY THE SANDSTONES: GENERAL LITHOLOGY...Introduction and Methods Numerical Results ... The Minerals The Heavy Mineral Assemblages and their Variation...502 502 505 508 508 509 512 514 MINERAL VARIATION AND SEDIMENT SOURCES 7. 516 516 520 (a) The Main...detrital mineralogy and pebble content of the Middle Jurassic Great Estuarine Series of the Inner Hebrides
Report (edition)
Regional Geology The Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland FOURTH EDITION CH Emeleus BR Bell Contributor:...C H. and BELL, BR. 2005. British regional geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland (Fourth...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
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org/ by guest on March 28, 2017 Compilation and appraisal of geochronological data from the North Atlantic...HENDRIKS1,3 & ELIZABETH A. EIDE4 1 Geological Survey of Norway, Post Box 6315 Sluppen, 7491 Trondheim, Norway...veg 10, 7053 Ranheim, Norway 4 National Academy of Sciences, 500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC 20001...Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP), composed of volcanic sequences and intrusive rocks, occurs onshore in Greenland...Islands, the UK and Ireland, and offshore surrounding these areas as well as the west coast of Norway. Geochronological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE JOURNAL oF GEOLOGY fuly-August 924 THE RELATION OF THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NATURAL GLASSES...Purpose and scope.-The natural glasses vary widely in composition, though a large proportion of the known...gravity, and index of refraction.2 The writer has observed the physical properties of a large number of specimens...specimens of natural glasses of known chemical composition with the hope that simple physical tests might...analyses in classifying natural glasses. Nature and occurrenceof natural glasses.-All igneous rocks which
Book
Geology and landscapes of Scotland Second Edition DUNEDIN Geology and landscapes of Scotland Iona,... looking toward the Ross of Mull granite (pink), with Ben More and lava flows behind. Rocky knolls on...gneiss. Geology and landscapes of Scotland Second edition Con Gillen University of Edinburgh DUNEDIN...published by Roger Jones, Terra Publishing, Harpenden, UK in 2003 Second edition first published in 2013 by...in Geology and the Earth Sciences ISBN 978-1-78046-009-3 © 2013 Cornelius Gillen The right of Con Gillen
Report (chapter)
Conodont palaeobiogeography and thermal maturation in the Caledonides. Journal of the Geological Society,...Pebble Bed and the Top Ashdown Sandstone. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 104...ALLEN, P. 1991. Provenance research: Torridonian and Wealden. In: MORTON, A. C., TODD, S. P. & HAUGHTON...GOLDRING, R. & MAYCOCK, I. D. 1960. Festoon bedding and 'mud-with-lenticles' lithology. Geological Magazine...tourmaline-quartz pebbles and the Precambrian crust northwest of Britain. Journal of the Geological Society
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be soon rectified by other ob­ Intosh of McGill the amount of University radium in have the recently...the pothesis AGE OF RADIOACTIVE MINERALS. It is of interest to note that Eve and Mac­ servers. This...This new point of view of regarding the supply of the earth's heat does not throw any definite light on...want, how­ the problem of the age of the earth. neighborhood of Montreal, and have obtained an aver­...remarkable property of radium. Strutt. By � In addition to its property of radiating and of emitting an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[University of California, San Diego] at 14:31 29 June 2016 Radium present in. Typical Rocks of Montreal...Montreal. 231 The amount of energy transformed per cubic centimetre of a metal into radiant energy per second...nearly the whole of this is absorbed by the metal, and passes into a form other than that of radiant energy...steady state, the amount of radiant energy produced in a cubic centimetre of the substance per second...second is C . 4~rV2 9 E K Now YE is the stream of radiant energy passing through the substance ; by Stefan's
Report (chapter)
lyellcollection.org/ at University of Arizona on May 31, 2015 History of Tertiary igneous activity in the...borderlands B. G. J. Upton S U M M A RY: Stretching and thinning of the Laurasian continental lithosphere, which...copious generation of basalt magma, invasion of the attenuated crust as dyke swarms and surface eruption...dyke-swarm injection and crustal attenuation led to sea floor spreading and generation of ocean crust. Fissure...'unsuccessful' rifting events prior to establishment of a 'successful' spreading axis. While some uncertainty
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Ltd. Printed in Northern Ireland The geochemistry of some natural acid glasses from the North Atlantic...ALISON MCDONALD Department of Geology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England...the distribution of some trace and major elements in pitchstones from Arran, Eigg and Iceland. The distribution...distribution of trace elements in the residual glasses of the porphyritic pitchstones and in a few of the phenocrysts...is also considered. Of the trace elements, MO, Sn, Ni, Co, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, S and As have been determined
Book
[ l BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geolo of Rum and the adjacent islands . • • .. Na Exrvird TABLE... TABLE I GEOLOGICAL SEQUENCE IN RUM AND THE ADJACENT ISIANDS Generalised thickness p Quaternary Blown sancl...Peat Rockfalls l.andsJips AlluvitLID (m) (Recent and Plcistocene) Postglacial raised beach depo its Glacial...deposit<; Eocene Sgurr of Eigg Pitchstone Formation Lavas, ash Iloivs and fluviatile conglon1erales...Ca1111a Lava Fonnation l]n conforllzity (:anna and Sanday· oLi\'ine-basalt. basaltic hawaiitc. l1a\vai1te
Book (edition)
WHITMAN f;OJ I l[ii • , GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND GEOLOGY OF • SECOND EDITION Edited by G. Y. CRAIG...Academic Press 1983 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced. stored in a retrieval...permission of the Scottish Academic Press Ltd., 33 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh EH7 5JX. Library of Congress...Geology of Scotland '' A Halsted Press book." Includes bibliographies and index. I. Geology-Scotland. I....QE264.G43 1983 554.11 83-12223 Design, typography and lay-out by: T. L. Jenkins, Edinburgh Printed in Great
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C J' -- .:t:.·: .. ;.• TITLES CLASSIC OF RELATED GEOLOGY INTEREST IN EUROPE SERIES l...Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George...Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf of Corinth Mike...Neill, Clive Portman, Peter Rowe OTHER TITLES OF RELATED I"t\TEREST Co,zfi·onting catastrophe: nell'perspecrh·es...Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the desrruction
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Atlas Funded by the Department of Trade and Industry ARGYLL Geochemistry and Hydrogeology Directorate, British...British Geological Survey Information and Marketing Directorate, British Geological Survey J BRITISH...:- 031-667 1000 Edinburgh EH9 3LA The full range of Survey publications is available through the Sales...Sales Desks at Keyworth, Murchison House, Edinburgh, and at the BGS London Information Office in the Natural...BGS books and reports are listed in HMSO's Sectional List 45, and can be bought from HMSO and through HMSO
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of Tertiary Igneous Rocks from the Isle of Skye, N.W. Scotland by ALAN P. DICKIN Department of Geology...Geology and Mineralogy, University of Oxford, Oxford 0X1 3 PR, UJC. {Received 14 July 1980; in revisedform...intermediate and acid Tertiary igneous rocks from the Isle of Skye and adjacent regions of northwest Scotland...Scotland. New Sr isotope analyses and two Rb/Sr isochron dates are also reported for the acid igneous...combined with published Sr and Nd isotope data for Tertiary igneous rocks from Skye and adjacent regions in
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(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, . . ...12. Branches and Veins, . . . . 13. Connection with Intrusive Sheets,. 14. Intersection of Dykes—Repeated
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Proterozoic Torridonian Rocks of Scotland: their Sedimentology, Geochemistry and Origin Geological Society...ensure that the scientific and production quality of its books matches that of its journals. Since 1997...Once the book is accepted, the Society has a team of Book Editors (listed above) who ensure that the volume...volume editors follow strict guidelines on refereeing and quality control. We insist that individual papers...similar to those for Journal of the Geological Society. The referees' forms and comments must be available
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The University of Iowa, on 26 Oct 2019 at 05:44:31, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available...The University of Iowa, on 26 Oct 2019 at 05:44:31, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available...S. W. B. Harland, M.A. (Editors) STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS, LTD. Caxton Hill, Ware Road, Hertford, Herts...The University of Iowa, on 26 Oct 2019 at 05:44:31, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available...The University of Iowa, on 26 Oct 2019 at 05:44:31, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available
 
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