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A note on kyanite in the Moine Series of Southern Ross-shire, and a review of related rocks in the Northern Highlands of Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. N. Clifford
T. N. Clifford
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Department of Geology, The University, Leeds, 2.
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Abstract

New occurrences of kyanite-bearing schists in the Moine Series in southern Ross-shire demonstrate the order of appearance of the typomorphic minerals staurolite, kyanite, garnet, and sillimanite, and are of significance in elucidating the relationship of regional metamorphism to orogenesis. The scarcity of kyanite in the Northern Highlands is the result of both isochemical and allo-chemical effects, and its distribution is compared with that of its polymorphs andalusite and sillimanite.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 95 , Issue 4 , August 1958 , pp. 333 - 346
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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