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The tholeiite dikes of the north of England1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Arthur Holmes
Affiliation:
The University, Durham
H. F. Harwood
Affiliation:
The University, Durham

Extract

The suite of dikes that forms the subject of this paper is bounded on the south from Sleights Moor (south of Whitby) to Dalston (south of Carlisle) by the well-known series of dikes known collectively as the Cleveland-Cockfield-Armathwaite dike, and on the north by the nearly parallel and more continuous Acklington dike which stretchesfrom Bondicarr near Coquet Island across the southern margin of the Cheviots into Scotland.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1929

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Footnotes

1

The eight new chemical analyses (and calculations of norms) presented in this paper have been made by Dr. Harwood. The field work and petrological investigations have been carried out by Professor Holmes, who is also responsible for the writing of the paper.

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page 8 note 3 Mem. Geol. Survey, Scotland. The geology of Arran, 1928, p. 240.

page 12 note 1 Tyrrell, for example, has indicated this departure from the normal appearance by the expression ‘cf. Brunton’. The analysis of a ‘cf. Brunton’ rock (Arran Memoir, p. 254, no. 21) shows 54.52 per cent. of silica, corresponding with the Acklington type.

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page 15 note 1 The Deadwater south dike appears to be an exception to this rule.

page 16 note 1 For data of the distribution of orthoclase in plagioclase see J. H. L. Vogt, The physical chemistry of the magmatic differentiation of igneous rocks. II. On the felspar diagram. Oslo, 1926, p. 48.

page 34 note 1 G. W. Tyrrell, Arran Memoir, 1928, p. 205.

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page 41 note 1 The ratio for the measured specimen of the Barrington dike (p. 20) is 52, but is not typical, as the rock is transitional to the Acklington type.

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page 41 note 3 The Whin Sill type of quartz-dolerite has a = 1.72.

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page 49 note 3 In the second of the papers referred to above a ‘quartz-diorite’ from the Vestur Horn intrusion in south-east Iceland is described (p. 513). It contains both potash-felspar and plagioclase, and hypersthene is present. The authors remark, ‘The patchy distribution of the dark minerals in this rock is strongly suggestive of admixture.’ On p. 533, however, they assume the extreme magmas to be products of differentiation operating during the igneous cycle.

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