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On Corundum-Spinel Xenoliths in the Gabbro of Haddo House, Aberdeenshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. H. Read
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool.

Extract

IN the neighbourhood of Haddo House, between Methlick and Ellon, some 20 miles north of Aberdeen, there is a considerable body of gabbro that has been named the Haddo Mass. This intrusion is later than the general metamorphism of the Dalradian country-rocks and, from its resemblance to certain dated intrusions, earlier than the local Middle Old Red Sandstone. It belongs, therefore, to the Younger Gabbro portion of the Post-Movement Phase in the igneous history of North-East Scotland.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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