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Notes on the Doleritic Intrusions of East Fife

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. Balsillie
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The following brief notes compiled mainly some years ago will, it is hoped, convey information supplementary to that provided in the Memoir on the Geology of Eastern Fife (Appendix, pt. ii), and are to be regarded as useful only where they furnish particulars not already available from that source.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 59 , Issue 10 , October 1922 , pp. 442 - 452
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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page 442 note 1 See Sir Teall, J. J. H., British Petrography, 1888, p. 190;Google Scholar also Falconer, J. D., Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlv, 1906, p. 133;CrossRefGoogle Scholar Macnair, P., Trans. Geol. Soc. Glas., vol. xiii, 1907, p. 56CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Tyrrell, G. W., Geol. Mag., 1909, pp. 299 and 359CrossRefGoogle Scholar; DrFlett, J. S., Mem. Geol. Surv. Scotland, “The Geology of the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh,” 1901. p. 301Google Scholar; and Bailey, E. B., Mem. Geol. Sure. Scotland, “The Geology of the Glasgow District,” 1911, p. 146.Google Scholar

page 445 note 1 It is difficult with a spectroscopic illuminator to get a sufficient intensity of light: isolation of the lines of the mercury arc has been found to give useful results.Google Scholar

page 448 note 1 Daly, , “Nature of Volcanic Action,” Proc. Amur. Acad. Arts, and Sci., vol. xlvii, 1911, remarks on the steady association of tuff neck and sill in the Scottish shires, and thinks that the former may perhaps be ascribed to gas emanations from the margins of the masses forming the intrusions.Google Scholar

page 449 note 1 Comparison of this material should be made with some of the rocks described by Mr. Tyrrell in his valuable paper, “The late Paleozoic Alkaline Igneous Rocks of the West of Scotland,” Geol. Mag., 1912, pp. 69 and 120.Google Scholar

page 450 note 1 Dr. Peach recently informed me that many years ago in a traverse of this around with Sir Archibald Geikie, they noticed these curious rocks; there is, however, no reference to them in the East Fife Memoir.Google Scholar