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Value of chemostratigraphical correlation in metamorphic terranes: an illustration from the Colonsay Limestone, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

N. M. S. Rock
N. M. S. Rock
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3LA, Scotland.
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Abstract

Chemostratigraphical correlation provides valuable insights into the status of the Colonsay Group, which field and structural studies have left unresolved. Using published discriminant functions, major and trace element data support previously proposed correlations of the Colonsay Limestone with Appin Group (Lower Dalradian) limestones, and particularly with the Ballachulish Limestone Formation. They also tend to preclude correlations with other nearby Dalradian carbonate formations, with marbles of the early Precambrian Lewisian complex, and with miscellaneous unassigned limestones in a similar structural position to the Colonsay Limestone, astride the Great Glen fault.

Keywords

Ballachulish Limestone FormationDalradiandolostonelimestonemajor elementtrace element.
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , 1985 , pp. 515 - 517
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985

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