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A Note on Some Acid Breccias in the Kilchrist Vent, Skye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. S. Ray
Affiliation:
15 Comely Bank Place, Edinburgh 4.

Abstract

Three acid breccia-bodies which are emplaced within the basaltic agglomerate of the Kilchrist vent of Tertiary age are described. They are considered to be of pyroclastic origin. Petrographic evidence which relates to the probable mechanism of emplacement of the breccias is discussed.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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