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  • :[[Argyll Group, Dalradian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Irel ::[[Argyll Group, Dalradian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Irel ...
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  • ...radian Supergroup was deposited in a rift basin. They are divided into the Argyll Group and the Southern Highland Group [[Media:P947914.jpg| (P947914)]]. In additi ...are confined to a narrow stratigraphical interval in the upper part of the Argyll Group and lower part of the Southern Highland Group. ...
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  • In the Argyll Group, the Bonahaven Dolomite has yielded acritarchs and algal stromatolites (Hac ...ajor global glacial period recorded after the basal Vendian (cf. the basal Argyll Group) was in late Ordovician times (Harland, 1972). ...
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  • ...he appearance of large volumes of volcanic material towards the top of the Argyll Group, with eruption continuing during deposition of the overlying Southern Highl == Appin Group and lower Argyll Group == ...
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  • ...ability, which resulted in the commencement of high-level rift faulting in Argyll Group times (Chapter 5). Increased crustal stretching, associated with the openin ...volcanic activity, widespread but minor and basic in character, is in the Argyll Group. Minor tuffs and pillow-lavas occur in the Muckle Fergie and Kymah burns (T ...
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  • ...rovided by the basic volcanic rocks which appear in the upper parts of the Argyll Group, and continue into the Southern Highland Group, particularly in the South-w ...th-east Highlands where there is extensive development of migmatite in the Argyll Group rocks of Angus and southern Aberdeenshire, and in northern Aberdeenshire wh ...
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  • :: [[Argyll Group, Grampian Caledonides|Argyll Group]] ...
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  • [[Image:P001560.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Stratiform baryte from the Dalradian Argyll Group in the Foss Mine at Aberfeldy, Perthshire. [https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asse ...by the influx of deep-water turbidite sandstone. The uppermost part of the Argyll Group is dominated by limestone with thick accumulations of mafic volcanic lavas ...
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  • ...ratigraphy of the Southern Highland Group is less clearly defined than the Argyll Group and consists of a thick succession of turbiditic arenites and pelitic metas ...48094)]]. The transition from the underlying Dungiven Limestone Formation (Argyll Group) into the lowest levels of the Dart Formation can be traced from Butterlope ...
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  • ...mafic-ultramafic plutons and the adjacent hornfelsed Southern Highland and Argyll group rocks. ...
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  • Small, elongate masses of granite are intruded into Appin Group and Argyll Group metasedimentary rocks at '''''Portsoy''''' (10), '''''Windyhills''''' (11), ...
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  • ...come involved, namely the Grampian and Appin groups and lower parts of the Argyll Group. The complementary fold to the Tay Nappe, here termed the Ben Lui Fold Comp .... In upper Glen Lyon Lochaber Subgroup rocks are progressively onlapped by Argyll Group units, namely the Cairn Mairg Quartzite, Ben Eagach Schist, Ben Lawers Schi ...
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  • ...e Formation [[Media:P947914.jpg| (P947914)]], the highest formation in the Argyll Group, is a regionally important marker which correlates with limestone formation ...
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  • ...sedimentary rocks are markedly more chloritic than those of the underlying Argyll Group, partly due to the generally lower metamorphic grade, but probably also ref In the Turriff Syncline a sedimentological transition from the Argyll Group into the Southern Highland Group is well seen. On its western limb, the bas ...
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  • ...malies range from about -10&nbsp;mGal in the north-west of the region over Argyll Group metasedimentary rocks west of the Portsoy Shear Zone (PSZ) to over 40&nbsp; ...sp;km beneath the Buchan region, east of the Portsoy Shear Zone, Appin and Argyll Group strata are modelled on top of a high-density basement (2.78&nbsp;mMgm<sup>- ...
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  • ...long to the Southern Highland Group, and appear to truncate the underlying Argyll Group succession progressively to the south-west. The more typical turbiditic Sou ...
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  • The Islay Subgroup at the base of the succeeding Argyll Group is marked by a discontinuous bed of metadiamictite, the ‘Boulder Bed’, whic The Southern Highland Group is locally unconformable on the Argyll Group west of Whitehills. The basal White-hills Grit Formation is characterised b ...
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  • ...the district, only the upper parts of the Dalradian Supergroup succession (Argyll Group and Southern Highland Group) are represented, ranging in age from about 610 ...
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  • ...ldy baryte deposits, situated near the top of the Ben Eagach Schist in the Argyll Group. The synsedimentation concentration of metals, which extends intermittently ...n Shee area (Fettes et al., 1986). To the west of this lineament Appin and Argyll group rocks are involved in a series of NW-facing folds which can be traced down ...
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  • ...subsequently intruded the southern margin. The Buchan Block exposes upper Argyll Group and Southern Highland Group rocks which are affected by ‘Buchan type’ metam ...nown succession and range from the older Grampian Group rocks to Appin and Argyll Group, and the younger Southern Highland Group (Figure 5). However, on the ‘Banff ...
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  • ...te although still condensed sequence, which passes up conformably into the Argyll Group, reappears to the north of Schiehallion and expands rapidly eastwards to Bl ...n common with the similar, more widespread boulder beds at the base of the Argyll Group, these have been interpreted as tillites, deposited from ice sheets (Treagu ...
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  • ...t of Glen Lyon where the rocks belong to the Easdale and Crinan Subgroups (Argyll Group) and include the Carn Mairg Quartzite, Ben Eagach Schist, Ben Lawers Schist ...ly face upwards (Treagus, 2000) (Figure&nbsp;6.2). However, as the overall Argyll Group sequence is regionally inverted, the younger beds, i.e. the Ben Lui Schist ...
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  • ...oped and extend down to the underlying Tarfside Limestone, assigned to the Argyll Group of the Dalradian (Harte 1979). ...
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  • ...lradian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Ireland|Argyll Group]] :::[[Argyll Group, Dalradian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Irela ...
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  • ...oad cuts). The regional outcrop pattern defined by the Grampian, Appin and Argyll group rocks here forms a large-scale ‘kink’, marked by a change in strike from no ...c Subsuite. The pluton has intruded the surrounding partly gneissose upper Argyll Group rocks. The sequence passes eastwards up into the turbiditic Southern Highla ...
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  • == Argyll Group, introduction == ...the Dalradian succession. Further evidence for tectonic instability in the Argyll Group comes from the widespread syngenetic mineralisation in the Easdale Subgroup ...
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  • '''Aims:''' to examine the upper Argyll Group stratigraphy in some of the ‘classic’ parts of the inverted limb of the Tay ...mainly by Dalradian Supergroup rocks that belong to the upper part of the Argyll Group (Easdale, Crinan and Tayvallich subgroups) and the Southern Highland Group. ...
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  • ...of the Ben Lui Fold Complex was more apparent. Note that when unfolded the Argyll Group sequence that here defines the fold pattern is still regionally inverted. E ...they may lie within a shear zone that here marks the eastern extent of the Argyll Group sequence. This sequence manifestly sits unconformably on the underlying rig ...
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  • ...Basic Subsuite, quartzitic and psammitic rocks of the Grampian, Appin and Argyll Group and wacke sandstones of the Southern Highland Group. Metamorphosed limeston ...J 450 483]. The quarries and pits are located within the crop of Appin and Argyll Group rocks and mostly exploited calcite-rich metalimestones. The metalimestones ...
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  • Metasedimentary rocks of the Easdale and Crinan subgroups in the Argyll Group contain stratabound deposits of baryte, barium silicates, base metal sulphi ...onal with psammites of the underlying Grampian Group. Younger rocks of the Argyll Group lying south-east of the fault rarely contain metalliferous veins (Smith et ...
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  • ...West Appin Group – Lochaber, Ballachulish and Blair Atholl Subgroup rocks. Argyll Group – Islay and Easdale Subgroup rocks. The Portsoy Shear Zone. (Mon 16<sup>th< ...indland – Ardwell Bridge – Cabrach – Clatt – Huntly Ipswichian palaeosol – Argyll Group metavolcanic rocks – Northeast Grampian Basic Suite (layered mafic and ultr ...
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  • ...ing Belnahua, Insh Island and Kerrera. The rocks involved form part of the Argyll Group (Middle Dalradian) (Harris & Pitcher 1975) and consist of metasedimentary r ...
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  • ...he complex outcrop pattern observed on the Ben Ledi–Ben Vane massif, where Argyll Group strata are preserved in the hinge region, and D4 structures interfere with ...
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  • ...ar the Glen Sannox baryte mine have no local source and match most closely Argyll Group (Dalradian) quartzites on Islay and Jura. Sparse plant remains (Psilophyton ...
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  • ...and Strathtummel ([[Media:P915427.png|(P915427)]], block C) the Appin and Argyll group rocks, the Boundary Slide and the underlying Grampian Group undergo a drama ..., regards the gneisses as migmatised equivalents of the upper parts of the Argyll Group (Chapter 5), so that an almost continuous Dalradian succession is recognise ...
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  • ...he structure acting as a syndepositional fault during the sedimentation of Argyll Group and Southern Highland Group Dalradian rocks. Recent field work and detailed ...
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  • ...lents that retain no trace of their former bedding, typically seen in some Argyll Group rock units. Hence, with increasing metamorphic grade, arenites become psamm ...nes between the Corryhabbie Quartzite and the quartzite at the base of the Argyll Group (Kymah Quartzite). This succession is truncated to the east by the western ...
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  • Exploration for stratabound mineralisation in the Argyll group (Dalradian) of north-east Scotland. British Geological Survey Mineral Recon ...
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  • ...roup and Southern Highland Group. Only the uppermost two formations of the Argyll Group, and overlying Southern Highland Group occur in the Aberfoyle district ([[M ===Argyll Group=== ...
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  • ...Mark Slide and thereafter exposures are in the Tarfside Group, part of the Argyll Group of the Dalradian. ...
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  • | rowspan="11" | Argyll Group ...eeper water sandstones, siltstones and mudstones in the middle part of the Argyll Group and this facies is dominant in the overlying Southern Highland Group. These ...
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  • SCOTT, R A. 1987. Lithostratigraphy, structure and mineralisation of the Argyll Group Dalradian near Tyndrum, Scotland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Man ...A., POLYA, D A, and PATTRICK, R A D. 1988. Proximal Cu+Zn exhalites in the Argyll Group Dalradian, Creag Bhocan, Perthshire. ''Scottish Journal of Geology'', Vol. ...
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  • ...ce of a long history. It divides complex folded and thrust Appin and lower Argyll group rocks to the west-north-west from upper Argyll and Southern Highland group ...e Succoth–Brown Hill and related mafic and ultramafic intrusions postdated Argyll Group sedimentation, but these bodies may also be a feature of the slow stretchin ...
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  • ...e provided by the 601±4 Ma date for the Tayvallich Volcanic Formation (top Argyll Group), and the early Cambrian age (''c''.520 Ma) of the Leny Limestone trilobite ...
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  • ...anging from a few metres to 350 m thick have been intruded into Appin and Argyll group metasedimentary rocks in the north-west part of the Huntly–Turriff district ...he enclave is poorly exposed and consists of low-lying ground underlain by Argyll Group metasedimentary rocks that have been intruded by several small mafic and ul ...
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  • ...d geobarometers, and garnet zoning patterns, to define P-T values in three Argyll Group pelite samples from the western side of the Huntly Pluton that lie within t ...
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