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3. Contact-Phenomena of some Scottish Olivine-Diabases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Ernst Stecher  and
Archibald Geikie
Ernst Stecher
Affiliation:
Leipzig
Archibald Geikie
Affiliation:
Director-General of the Geological Survey
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In the second and third numbers of the ninth volume of Tschermdk's Mineralogische und petrographische Mittheilungen, I published the results of an examination of some “dolerites” from the Carboniferous basin of the Firth of Forth, the material for which I obtained through the kindness of Prof. Archibald Geikie. It is true most of the “dolerites” are already well known through the valuable writings of Professor A. Geikie and Mr Allport, but a special study of the modifications of the rock in the different parts of any one volcanic mass has not yet been the subject of any paper. Having elicited many facts of petrological interest, I purpose giving in this communication a short account of my investigations.

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Proceedings 1887-88
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 15 , 1889 , pp. 160 - 172
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1889

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note * page160 My friend Professor Zirkel, having told me that he was often at a loss for a subject of original investigation to prescribe as a thesis for the doctorate at Leipzig, and having asked me for assistance in the matter, I suggested the contact-nietamorphism and connected phenomena of the eruptive rocks in the basin of the Firth of Forth, which had never been fully investigated. He accepted the suggestion, and I forwarded to him a series of specimens collected as material for the purpose of working out the subject. The thesis was eventually taken up by Dr Stecher, and the results of his investigations are condensed in the present paper.—A, G.

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