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Contact of Tertiary Lavas with Torridonian near Broadford, Skye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. B. Bailey
E. B. Bailey
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19 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh.
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Abstract

It is argued that the Strollamus outcrop of Tertiary basalt lavas reaching south to Coire Garbh occupies a volcanic inbreak or sink dating from the lava period; and that the Broadford Dolerite is not metamorphic.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , April 1954 , pp. 105 - 115
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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