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V.—The Geology of Ardgour, Argyllshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

H. I. Drever
H. I. Drever
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University of St Andrews.
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Between 1897 and 1903 Ardgour was investigated and surveyed for the Geological Survey by J. S. Grant Wilson. His results were published in the Summaries of Progress of the Geological Survey for 1897, 1898, 1900, and 1903, and were later included in Sheet 53 of the Survey's 1 inch to 1 mile maps and in the Glencoe Memoir. Little additional work had been attempted until 1933 when R. M. Shackelton commenced remapping the area. Shackelton was prevented from completing this work, and the writer supplanted him to continue research on the area from 1934 to 1937 under the direction of Professor C. E. Tilley.

The Ardgour estate comprises a rugged, mountainous tract of Argyllshire north of Loch Linnhe. One large and several smaller masses of epidiorite discovered by Grant Wilson (text-fig. 1) have been intruded into rocks of the Moine Series. Apart from large areas occupied by felspathic granulite and other quartzose types there are also limestones in an amount unusual in the normal Moine Series, some finely banded hornfelses and a zone surrounding the epidiorite masses composed apparently of a felspathised or granitised granulite (indicated by a broken line in text-fig. 1). Pelitic types are important in the western part of the area, and, round Sgurr Dhomhnuill in particular, they have apparently been injected by acid material. This at least is the present view, although the ground has yet to be thoroughly studied. There are a number of lamprophyre and basalt dykes, and some granite, in most places brecciated (with the occasional production of mylonite, e.g. Ben Ba), occurs along the line of the Great Glen Fault. Most of the ground is well exposed, although there may be glacial deposits inland and marine deposits round the coast (not differentiated in text-fig. 1).

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , 1941 , pp. 141 - 170
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1941

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