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Notes on the Geology of Sule Stack, Orkney

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Malcolm Stewart
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Sule Stack is composed of an orthogneiss traversed by shatter belts and small pegmatite veins composed of microcline and quartz. The chief constituent minerals of the gneiss are oligoclase and orthoclase felspars, hornblende altering towards chlorite, augite, and apatite. In addition some sections show magnetite and a few quartz. Comparisons are made between the gneiss of Sule Stack and that of the neighbouring island of Sule Skerry.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , March 1938 , pp. 135 - 140
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1938

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