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A Monchiquite Vent, Stob a' Ghrianain, Inverness-shire

  • J. Hartley (a1) and G. P. Leedal (a1)
Abstract

A description is given of a monchiquite vent which cuts Moine rocks in Inverness-shire. Similar vents considered to be of Permian age are common in the Midland Valley of Scotland and the Orkney Islands but no example has yet been described in detail from the Highlands.

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