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Anorthite from
Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Anorthite
Formula:Ca(Al2Si2O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anorthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:175633
Long-form Identifier:1:3:175633:3
GUID (UUID V4):4e0b6b54-75f9-49e9-8292-bed4ee51c8b6
Localities for Anorthite in this Region
Drynock, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 Unpublished M.Sc...University of Durham.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)
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
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambro-Ordovician Skarns on Isle of Skye, Scotland Brian Jackson Location Skye is the largest of the Inner Hebridean...Hebridean islands. Its location in the north-west of Scotland is both remote and isolated. The coastline is...is hilly and much land lies above 150 metres. Most of its hills are below 450 metres, but the Black Cuillins...high and rugged with the peak of Sgurr Alasdair reaching 993 metres. Skye is about 80km from north to south...from the sea. This dramatic coastline surrounds some of the most exceptional and varied scenery to be found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BELL Department of Geology and Applied Geology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Gl2 8QQ, UK Abstract Intruded...basement rocks around Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull, Scotland, is a suite of high-level, inclined, xenolithic...xenoliths, the more basic members of the complex contain a diverse suite of ultrahasic and basic xenoliths...major- and trace-element data from a small number of the xenoliths suggest that the xenoliths represent...Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, Meston Building, King's College, University of Aberdeen,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geldmacher á Karsten M. Haase á Colin W. Devey C. Dieter Garbe-SchoÈnberg The petrogenesis of Tertiary...Tertiary cone-sheets in Ardnamurchan, NW Scotland: petrological and geochemical constraints on crustal contamination...form one of the last magmatic stages in the Tertiary central complex on the Scottish peninsula of Ardnamurchan...relative to a gabbro intrusion. Most of the cone-sheets consist of tholeiitic to transitional basalt with...compositional variation of the basaltic rocks is mainly due to crystal fractionation of olivine and clinopyroxene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
self-organization of dolerite dyke–marble contacts: Beinn an Dubhaich, Skye M. B. HOLNESS Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK (email: marian@esc.cam.ac.uk)...dolomitic marble in the aureole of the Beinn an Dubhaich granite on the Isle of Skye have developed metasomatized...contact with the (younger) granite in the southern part of Torrin Quarry. These margins display well-defined...which can be divided into two groups on the basis of composition. Chlorite-bearing margins display the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chemistry of the MulI-Morvern Tertiary lava succession, western Scotland ANDREWC. KERR Department of Geology...University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK The 1800 m thick preserved remnant of the...the Tertiary lava succession of Mull and Morvern consists of three basic mantle-derived magma types, with...Contrary to the suggestions of previous workers the mineral chemistry of the lava succession (in conjunction...and trace element chemistry) is strongly supportive of a fractional crystallisation origin for the more
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in The Netherlands [5] ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENT OF Sr AND O EXCHANGE BETWEEN METEORIC-HYDROTHERMAL FLUID...GRANOPHYRE, ISLE OF SKYE, N.W. SCOTLAND A.P. DICKIN 1, R.A. EXLEY 1 and B.M. SMITH 2 1 Department of Geology...andMineralogy, University of Oxford, Oxford 0)(1 3PR (U.K.J 2 Department of Geological Sciences, Brown...magnitude of hydrothermal Sr contamination in an 18 O-depleted granite from the Isle of Skye, Sr and O...microprobe mineral analyses were performed on samples of Coire Uaigneich Granophyre (CUG), including two samples
Journal (issue)
Treasures of the Earth, please telephone 0870 5673331 124 hours, 7 days a week) ог fax 0870 6060447. UK& REPUBLICOF...at no extra cost 1UK only; £1.00 p&p for Republic of lrelandl. For details, telephone 0870 5673331 124...a week), fax 0870 6060447 or write to: Treasures of the Earth, Back Issues Department, Orbis Publishing...2. The issue numberls) and number of copies required. 3. Payment of the cover price plus 50p per issue...gemstones. Simply order by telephone orwrite to the UK address above. Please state which tray you require
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and alteration of allanite in skarn from the Beinn an Dubhaich granite aureole, Skye MARTIN P. SMITH*...SMITH*, PAUL HENDERSON and TERESA JEFFRIES Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell...diopside-hedenbergite-anorthite-hastingsite endoskarn from the Beinn an Dubhaich granite aureole, Skye. Fluid-inclusion...Fluid-inclusion studies indicate formation of pyroxene at temperatures in the range 600-700ºC from Na-K-Fe-Ca...brines (45-60 wt. % NaCl eq.) assuming pressures of 280-640 bars. Allanite and amphibole formed from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lavas of the Isle of Skye, Scotland by R. N. THOMPSON, 1 J. ESSON, and A. C. DUNHAM Department of Geology...T H E areas of Early Tertiary lavas preserved on islands of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, and a substantial...substantial part of north-east Treland have played an important part in the history of research on volcanic...volcanic rocks. The lavas of Mull have become the most renowned of these, because their systematic description...et al. (1924) led to the concept of magma types and series; a method of comprehending igneous rocks which
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
basalts from the Palaeocene lava field of west-central Skye, Scotland: evidence for parental magma compositions...Department of Geology and Applied Geology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland AND IAN T...two lavas of picritic basalt from the Palaeocene lava field of west-central Skye, Scotland. Whole-rock...Fo89), which enclose early-precipitated crystals of chrome-spinel (A1203: c. 25 wt.%; Cr203: c. 36 wt...compositions of both lavas. A high-pressure origin for the chrome-spinels is suspected on the basis of their
Book
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...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the
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...hypersthene, in contrast to the normal one-pyroxene rocks of the alkali basalt-trachyte association (Muir and...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JBusz—Granophyre Dyke in Scotland. II.—ON A GRANOPHYRE DYKE INTRUSIVE IN ARDNAMURCHAN, SCOTLAND. THE GABBRO OP...Professor K. Busz, Ph.D., of Minister. AST year, while on an excursion to Scotland, I visited the Ardnamurchan...extent of rocks belonging to the gabbro family. On the road leading from the little village of Kilhoan...Kilhoan, opposite the Isle of Mull, on the north coast, a small quarry has been opened for road-metal, •which...•which shows an exquisite section of a granophyre dyke intrusive in a dark and almost black fine-grained
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Harker—Igneous Rocks of Skye. concentration. When it is remembered that the Dead Sea sinks to depths of 400 metres...Ackroyd that " common salt in the southern parts of the lake forms quite a paste " will evidently not...to quote here the views of geologists on this question. The observations of Lartet (Bull. S.G.F., [2]...p. 488). The absence of iodine, so characteristic of seawater, the presence of bituminous and sulphurous...M. de Lapparent to the view that the intervention of sea-water cannot be looked for in accounting for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral. 2002, 14, 49-60 Hydrothermal alteration of biotite and plagioclase as inferred from intragranular...Lausanne, Switzerland Abstract: The alteration processes of biotite to chlorite and plagioclase to albite that...hydrothermal alteration of granites were investigated on a scale of £ 250 µm using a combination of in situ oxygen...microfractures, micropores and grain boundaries. The breakdown of biotite to chlorite occurs once K+ is removed from...redistribution of elements including oxygen isotopes in both tetrahedral and octahedral sheets of the biotite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover...readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting...are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production...Nicoli1, Simon Matthews1 1 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom...the behaviour of magmas under active volcanoes is critical for our understanding pr of the timing and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the GABBROS, DOLERITES, and BASALTS, of TEICTIARY AGE, in SCOTLAND and IRELAND. By Professor JOHN W. JUDD...Age. Nomenclature of the Rocks. Minerals of which the Rocks are composed. Proportions of the several Minerals...Structures of the Rocks. Geological Relations of the Rocks exhibiting the several Structures. Origin of the...Crystallization of the Rocks. Alterations which the Rocks have undergone. w1. Action of surrounding M,~gma...Crystals. w2. Action of Solvents under Pressure (Schillerization). w3. Action of Steam and other Gases
 
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