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Notes on the Ultrabasic Body of Unst, Shetland Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. S. Amin
M. S. Amin
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Imperial College, London, S.W.7.
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Abstract

Within the main serpentine of Unst, a lower peridotite layer, a dunite layer, and an upper pyroxenite layer can be distinguished. These three zones have transitional contacts which are marked by a primary mineral banding. Analyses of specimens from each zone are given and it is suggested that the layering is due to differentiation in situ. The zones dip steeply eastward and the base of the intrusion is cut off on the west by a thrust which is slightly oblique to the banding and locally cuts out the peridotite zone. Interior planes of dislocation are parallel to, or perpendicular to, the primary banding.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 5 , October 1954 , pp. 399 - 406
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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