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The Bearing of Rolled Garnets on the Concept of b-lineation in Moine Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. R. McLachlan
G. R. McLachlan
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Oxford.
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Abstract

A preliminary examination of Moine rocks containing rolled garnets from three widely spaced localities in the North-West Highlands indicates that the lineation in all cases is parallel to b. This is in accord with Phillips' theory that the metamorphism of the Moine schists was due to movement in a north-easterly or south-westerly direction. A Caledonian age for the metamorphism of the Moines therefore appears to be unlikely.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 90 , Issue 3 , June 1953 , pp. 172 - 176
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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