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Description: | Laggan Bay, Loch Buie, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland xenolith within Palaeocene Loch Uisg Gabbro, Unusual and spectacular rock. Xenolith might be Dalradian - locality is on SE side of Great Glen Fault. Collected about 2m from GLAHM 134408, which is from a different xenolith. Xenolith core has abundant ilmenite, skeletal plagioclase and a relatively K-rich groundmass. May have been an organic-rich pelite (eg slate?) .originally? | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | IGPETGABB : METTEX : SILICTMISC : METPETPELITE : TSIMAGE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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