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IV.—The So-called Serpentines of the Lleyn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Catherine A. Raisin
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In the south-west of the Lleyn peninsula, the country inland is generally covered by drift, but the Survey map marks some isolated patches of rock as “Serpentine.” When I first visited the district, with the kind encouragement of Professor Bonney, under whom I was continuing my work at University College, I made a collection of these so-called “Serpentines” from ten different localities. The one at Porth din lleyn had been shown by Professor Bonney to be mainly diabase, and others of the examples have been since described in a previous number of this Magazine and elsewhere, but we have yet no complete account. I have, therefore, attempted to give a short summary, as preliminary to some discussion of the district.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 9 , Issue 9 , September 1892 , pp. 408 - 413
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1892

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page 408 Note 1 On the Serpentine and associated Rocks of Anglesey; with a Note on the so-called Serpentine of Porth din lleyn. By Prof. Bonney, T. G., Q.J.G.S., 1881, vol. xxxvii. p. 48.Google Scholar

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page 410 Note 6 One of the rocks was ohtained from a boss on the grassy slope and has a bright green polished surface with streaks coloured by red halmatite. Sheep are continually rubbing themselves against the projecting stone, and the polishing is evidently due to their action.

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page 411 Note 1 am much indebted to Mr. Thos. Davies, F.G.S., for kindly allowing me to see slides of the Lambay porphyry, and other Irish specimens, in the collection of the Mineralogical Department at the British Museum of Natural History.

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