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The contact between Tertiary Granophyre and Torridonian Arkose on Minishal, Isle of Rhum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. J. Hughes ,
W. J. Wadsworth  and
C. H. Emeleus
C. J. Hughes
Affiliation:
c/o Chartered Exploration Ltd., P.O. Box 293, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia.
W. J. Wadsworth
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
C. H. Emeleus
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
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Abstract

Re-examination of the contact between granophyre and arkose on Minishal, Isle of Rhum, shows it to be a tectonic junction in which the effects of crushing and shearing have been largely obscured by contact alteration.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 94 , Issue 4 , August 1957 , pp. 337 - 339
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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