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The aegirine-granulites of Glen Lui, Braemar, Aberdeenshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. R. McLachlan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge

Extract

In the explanation of sheet 65 of the Geological Survey of Scotland an outcrop of aegirine-granulites was described from Glen Lui, 1¼ miles SSE. of Derry Lodge. Brief descriptions of some of the rocks were given and it was suggested that they might be metamorphosed igneous rocks having distinct affinities with the borolanites of Assynt. Such a correlation, it was felt, would be of importance in assessing the age of metamorphism in the Central Highlands. Harker (1932) made the further suggestion that these rocks might originally have been a tuff which had subsequently become metamorphosed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1951

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