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Journal of the Geological Society; 1974; v. 130; issue.3; p. 279-284;
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.130.3.0279
© 1974 Geological Society of London

A layered basic complex in the Lewisian, south of Loch Laxford, Sutherland

F. BRYAN DAVIES

South of Loch Laxford, basic and ultrabasic rocks overlying migmatitic gneisses and underlying schists of supracrustal origin, occupy a NW trending late Scourian synformal trough. The basic and ultrabasic outcrops are parts of a continuous sheet-like body now having a maximum thickness of 400 m and extending along strike for at least 12 km. Although the body has suffered the effects of the granulite facies metamorphism, still preserved in little-deformed portions of the sheet are lithological sequences, textures and minerals characteristic of a layered cumulitic igneous body.




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