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XVIII.—The Trachytic and Allied Rocks of the Clyde Carboniferous Lava-Plateaus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

G. W. Tyrrell
G. W. Tyrrell
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The lavas of the Scottish Carboniferous are predominantly basaltic. True andesites and rhyolites are conspicuous by their absence, whilst trachytes and allied rocks are present in quite subordinate quantity. This association of basalt and trachyte is in accordance with the fact that the basalts have a slight alkaline cast, which is evidenced by an alkali content greater than that of the average basalt, and by the occasional presence of nepheline and analcite amongst their constituents. The transition from basalts to more acid types is accomplished, not by way of the andesites, but through the mugearites, volcanic rocks with chemical affinities to the essexites. All transitions from the more felspathic types of basalts, the Jedburgh and Markle types, can be traced through mugearites to trachytes or allied rocks.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 36 , Issue 3-4 , 1917 , pp. 288 - 299
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1917

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