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The Age Relationship of the Granophyre and Basalt of Orval, Isle of Rhum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

George P. Black
George P. Black
Affiliation:
Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh.
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Abstract

On Orval, in the Isle of Rhum, Tertiary plateau lavas directly overlie the granophyre of the ring-complex. Judd considered that the Orval basalts rest unconformably upon an old land surface cut in the granophyre; but on the supposed existence of veining and metamorphism later workers, in particular Geikie and Harker, concluded that the granophyre had intruded the volcanic pile. The author's re-examination of the Orval rocks supports Judd's early interpretation.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , April 1952 , pp. 106 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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