 | | 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) | | 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 Unpublished M.Sc...University of Durham.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 (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) | | S0016-7037(97) 00297-4 Low 61sO magma, Isle of Skye, Scotland: Evidence from zircons CARRIE E. GILLIAMand...GILLIAMand JOHN W. VALLEY* Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin...n s in Tertiary granitic rocks from the Isle of Skye, Scotland were resistant to measurable oxygen isotope...Lewisian basement. Analysis of different magnetic and size fractions of zircon shows no significant correlation...values are 5%o lower indicating variable exchange of quartz with low 6 ~80 heated meteoric waters. These |  | Vogel, Thomas A., Younker, Leland W., Wilband, John T., Kampmueller, Elaine (1984) Magma mixing: the Marsco suite, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 87 (3) 231-241 doi:10.1007/bf00373056 | 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) | | 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 (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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hydrothermal alteration of Tertiary igneous rocks from the Isle of Skye, northwest Scotland II. Granites John...John M. Ferry Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218...Hydrothermal alteration of Tertiary granites from Skye involed the reaction of igneous amphibole, biotite...plagioclase feldspar, magnetite, and ilmenite with aqueous fluid primarily to combinations of secondary alkali...feldspar, chlorite and montmorillonite. Lesser amounts of muscovite, calcite, epidote, prehnite, zeolite, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 263 A granophyre from Coire Uaigneich, Isle of Skye, containing quartz paramorphs after tridymite. (With...Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford. [Read March 26, 1953.] narrow belt of granophyre...west of Blaven in the Isle T HofESkye showed so admirably the effects of chilling that a series of specimens...collected by one of us (L.R.W.) and found to contain, in the chilled marginal rock, phenoerysts of tridymite...to phenocrysts of tridymite inverted to quartz, there is present in the groundmass of the unehilled granophyre |  | | 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) | | 33 OF T H E M I N E R A L O G I C A L SOCIETY September 1963 No. 262 Melting relations of Tertiary...granitic rocks in Skye and Rhum By G. M. BROWN,M.A., B.Se., D.Phil., F.G.S. Department of Geology and Mineralogy...Oxford [Read 8 November 1962] Summary. The results of reconnaissance melting experiments on Tertiary granophyres...water-vapour pressure show that the melting behaviour of these rocks can be viewed in relation to the synthetic...are constructed for Skye granophyres and, viewed in relation to the stability of tridymite, the depth |  | | 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 (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) | | 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) | | 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 |
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