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I.—The Igneous Intrusions between St Andrews and Loch Leven

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Frederick Walker
Affiliation:
Carnegie Teaching Fellow
John Irving
Affiliation:
Carnegie Research Scholar, University of St Andrews.

Extract

Though the conspicuous volcanic phenomena of the Fifeshire coast-line have for long attracted the attention of petrologists, the igneous geology of the interior has not been studied in any detail. The petrological sections of the relative Geological Survey Memoirs, together with Geikie's Ancient Volcanoes, describe numerous inland vents and intrusions, while a large number of the doleritic sills has recently been made the subject of a most interesting paper by Mr D. Balsillie, but a belt of country stretching from St Andrews to Loch Leven proved to be practically virgin ground from the point of view of the igneous geologist. It is the intrusions of this area, together with a few pyroclastic deposits, which form the subject of the present communication. Only rocks which have hitherto been undescribed are treated petrologically, though in the case of several better known intrusions alterations of the published maps have been found necessary.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1929

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