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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
In the Geological Survey memoir a dike is recorded cutting the Lewisian gneiss near Achmelvich, north-west of Lochinver, Sutherland. At the time the mapping was carried out no thin section was prepared of the rock, and the dike was presumed to be a continuation of the Canisp porphyry dike which is exposed in the river Inver near Lochinver and farther south-east.
During an investigation of the post-Cambrian sills and dikes of Assynt and the adjoining districts of north-west Scotland, the writer examined the Achmelvich dike in some detail and recognized its affinities with the nepheline-syenites. It is the purpose of the present note to describe the field occurrence and petrography of the dike.
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page 830 note 1 Borolanite was named after Loch Borolan, as it was then spelt. Following customary Geological Survey practice place–names are here given as on the one–inch map, and the loch is therefore now spelt Borrolan.
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