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A Volcanic Vent in the Bogside Mines, Fife1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. Howel Francis
E. Howel Francis
Affiliation:
H.M. Geological Survey, Edinburgh.
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Abstract

Mines near Culross, in Fife, have traversed a vent of Upper Limestone Group (Namurian) age at levels estimated to be 150 to 250 feet below the contemporary surface. The vent-filling comprises a central basaltic tuff, and a marginal lithic tuff derived entirely from the Carboniferous sedimentary rocks. A sill-like body of lithic tuff has been intruded beyond the vent margins. In sediments outside the vent post-volcanic subsidence has generated small faults; these become flat-lying or undulating where they traverse mudstones and siltstones that are inferred to have been incompletely indurated at the time of the subsidence. The volcanic and post-volcanic processes are discussed in the light of Cloos' interpretation of Swabian volcanism.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 96 , Issue 6 , December 1959 , pp. 457 - 469
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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Communicated with the permission of the Director, Geological Survey and Museum.

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