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Rodingite from the Girvan-Ballantrae complex, Ayrshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

T. W. Bloxam
T. W. Bloxam*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Glasgow
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Occurrence and relationships. Altered and garnetized gabbros occur in association with serpentinite occupying the lower south-eastern slope of Byne Hill, one mile to the south of Girvan. The rocks crop out above Balaclava Wood near the footpath from Bynehill Bridge to Craiglea. Although the precise form of the altered gabbros is not very well revealed, they appear to be dikes intrusive into the surrounding serpentinized harzburgite. Contacts with the serpentinite are exposed in two places but are evidently lines of later movement. The relationships of these altered gabbros to the main gabbro mass of Byne Hill are obscure. They are, however, probably contemporaneous, since sporadic garnetization of the main gabbro occurs along its contact with serpentinite farther to the south-west.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 227 , December 1954 , pp. 525 - 528
Copyright
Copyright © 1954, The Mineralogical Society

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