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An Association of Rhyolite and Ignimbrite in the Kilchrist Vent, Skye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Prem S. Ray
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Abstract

A small mass consisting of three intrusions of fine-textured acid rocks occurs within the basaltic agglomerates of the Kilchrist Vent of Tertiary age. One of the intrusions comprises flow-layered rhyolite and ignimbrite. It is thought that the rock-types represent two distinctive eruptive waves. A form of ovoidal structure not seen elsewhere in the Kilchrist area occurs in another rhyolite intrusion.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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