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III.—The Plutonic Rocks of Garabal Hill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

B. K. N. Wyllie and
Alexander Scott
Alexander Scott
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Carnegie Research Scholars in the University of Glasgow.
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At various places, such as the north side of Garabal Hill, the two Garabal burns (loc. iv and v, Fig. 1), and elsewhere, remarkably coarse rocks are found. A good section showing an apparent passage from tonalite to a coarse hornblendite is exposed at loc. v (Fig. 1). The rock in the bed of the burn is the normal tonalite, which appears to pass gradually to diorite. A closer examination of the unweathered rocks, however, shows that the passage is only apparent, and that the tonalite is clearly intrusive into the diorite with sharp junctions. The diorite near the junction is a rock of porphyritic aspect, containing large crystals of zoned diopside, abundant green hornblende and felspar, while the amount of quartz is small. A good deal of biotite is present, so that the rock might be described as a pyroxenemica-diorite. Within a few feet the rock becomes coarser in texture, and the felspathic content diminishes, while there is a corresponding increase in the amount of amphibole. The latter is the green hornblende common to the diorites, and is occasionally replaced by mosaics of secondary actinolite.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 10 , Issue 12 , December 1913, pp. 536 - 545
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1913

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