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A Xenolithic Monchiquite Dyke Near Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. P. L. Walker  and
J. V. Ross
G. P. L. Walker
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Imperial College of Science, London.
J. V. Ross
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Imperial College of Science, London.
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Abstract

The remarkable xenolithic dyke described in this paper is one of the little-known swarm of camptonite and monchiquite dykes of probable Permian age in the Northern Highlands of Scotland. It is the first intrusion containing xenoliths of ultrabasic rock to be recorded from the Glenfinnan area, although such xenoliths have been described from vents or intrusions of probable or known Permian age in Caithness in the extreme north of Scotland, and in Ayrshire and elsewhere in the south of Scotland.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 6 , December 1954 , pp. 463 - 472
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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