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Value of chemostratigraphical correlation in metamorphic terranes: an illustration from the Colonsay Limestone, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
Abstract
Chemostratigraphical correlation provides valuable insights into the status of the Colonsay Group, which field and structural studies have left unresolved. Using published discriminant functions, major and trace element data support previously proposed correlations of the Colonsay Limestone with Appin Group (Lower Dalradian) limestones, and particularly with the Ballachulish Limestone Formation. They also tend to preclude correlations with other nearby Dalradian carbonate formations, with marbles of the early Precambrian Lewisian complex, and with miscellaneous unassigned limestones in a similar structural position to the Colonsay Limestone, astride the Great Glen fault.
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- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , 1985 , pp. 515 - 517
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985
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