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  • ...radian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Ireland|Southern Highland Group]] ::[[Southern Highland Group, Dalradian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Irel ...
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  • ...deposited in a rift basin. They are divided into the Argyll Group and the Southern Highland Group [[Media:P947914.jpg| (P947914)]]. In addition to the correlation with succe ...hical interval in the upper part of the Argyll Group and lower part of the Southern Highland Group. ...
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  • ...uartz dolerite dykes that crop out within the metasedimentary rocks of the Southern Highland Group (see Minor intrusions). ...
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  • ...e north-east, where similar lithologies continue to crop out. Furthermore, Southern Highland Group rocks of similar density elsewhere in the north of the district are associa ...
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  • :: [[Southern Highland Group, Grampian Caledonides|Southern Highland Group]] ...
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  • ...Group, particularly in the South-west Highlands. The dominant rocks of the Southern Highland Group are, however, turbiditic metagreywacke sandstones and siltstones. ...f the north-west and the lowest grade, greenschist facies, in the youngest Southern Highland Group rocks along the Highland Border. This general pattern is, however, modified ...
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  • ...gical categories: psammitic to pelitic and meta-igneous lithologies in the Southern Highland Group; the sedimentary rocks of the Lower Devonian and lower Carboniferous essent The metasedimentary and metaigneous rocks of the Southern Highland Group have very little intergranular porosity, and can only store and transmit gr ...
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  • ...graded bedding is the commonest sedimentary structure. They belong to the Southern Highland Group, the uppermost group of the Dalradian, and have generally been correlated w ...
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  • ...Limestone). Lithologically the group is similar to rocks of the Dalradian Southern Highland Group and distinguishing between the two has caused considerable confusion. ...stic micas in the Highland Border Complex rocks and their absence from the Southern Highland Group rocks. This view, however, was not supported by subsequent workers. Jehu an ...
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  • ...Argyll Group, with eruption continuing during deposition of the overlying Southern Highland Group. Faulting, related to the progressive lithospheric stretching across the ri == Southern Highland Group == ...
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  • == Southern Highland Group == The Southern Highland Group can be traced from County Mayo in western Ireland to the north-east Grampia ...
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  • In the Southern Highland Group the search for fossils has concentrated upon the weakly deformed, low-grade ...uggest relatively rapid accumulation, it is possible that the whole of the Southern Highland Group, and hence the whole of the Dalradian, is Precambrian. Current interpretati ...
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  • ...nments and basin evolution of the upper Dalradian: Tayvallich Subgroup and Southern Highland Group. Unpublished PhD thesis, Kingston University.</ref>). The sedimentary rocks ...
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  • ...ly a centre of crustal instability from Easdale Subgroup times until early Southern Highland Group times. ...
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  • [[File:P947916.jpg|thumbnail|Lithostratigraphy of the Southern Highland Group in the north Sperrin Mountains and north Co. Londonderry (14). (P947916)]] ...calcareous schist units. In the Sperrin Mountains the stratigraphy of the Southern Highland Group differs markedly across the axial trace of the recumbent Sperrin Fold [[Med ...
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  • ...th-west, bringing the Aberfoyle Slates, which lie close to the base of the Southern Highland Group, to within a kilometre or so of the Highland Boundary Fault. ...rock gouge. The fault displaces rocks within the Ben Ledi Grit Formation, Southern Highland Group. Exposure in track side, 150&nbsp;m north of Meall Ear, Achray Forest [NN 5 ...
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  • ...h-Omagh area while the Lough Derg Slide has transported inverted Dalradian Southern Highland Group rocks southwestwards across the north of the inlier in south Co. Donegal. ...
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  • ...ctive, dark green-coloured metasedimentary rocks in the lower parts of the Southern Highland Group, informally termed ‘green beds’ and now assigned to the Loch Katrine Volcan ...
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  • ...uccession from the upper part of the Grampian Group to a high level in the Southern Highland Group is exposed along the Moray Firth coast between Buckie and Macduff. The lowe The Southern Highland Group is locally unconformable on the Argyll Group west of Whitehills. The basal ...
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  • ...the Loch Lomond and Callander–Glen Ample–Ben Vorlich areas, here mainly in Southern Highland Group rocks. However, my knowledge of the field outcrops and detailed geology in ...
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  • ...nments and basin evolution of the upper Dalradian: Tayvallich Subgroup and Southern Highland Group. Unpublished PhD thesis, Kingston University.</ref>; Pickett et al., in pre ...and Group. Although the investigation extends throughout the length of the Southern Highland Group outcrop, particular use is made of exposed sections in the Aberfoyle distri ...
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  • The section begins in the Ben Ledi Grit Formation (Southern Highland Group) and traverses downstream into the Keltie Water Grit Formation (Trossachs G ...ucial in deciding that a lithostratigraphical break does not exist between Southern Highland Group Dalradian and what is now assigned to the Trossachs Group (Tanner & Sutherl ...
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  • There is a broad regional gravity high over the Dalradian strata of the Southern Highland Group of the Buchan region east of the PSZ but the Huntly intrusion itself is not The main regional feature of the model is the nature of the crust beneath Southern Highland Group rocks east of the PSZ. At depths of about 8&nbsp;km beneath the Buchan regi ...
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  • ...f the Dalradian Supergroup is only preserved in the uppermost parts of the Southern Highland Group where, locally, metamorphosed limestone contains mid Cambrian trilobites. [[Image:P225420.jpg|thumb|200px|Coarse-grained turbiditic sandstones of the Southern Highland Group exposed in the River Roe near Limavady, County Londonderry. [https://geoscen ...
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  • ...lradian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Ireland|Southern Highland Group]] :::[[Southern Highland Group, Dalradian Supergroup, Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane, Northern Irela ...
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  • ...onest sedimentary structures. These, the Glen Lethnot Grits, belong to the Southern Highland Group and are equated with the Ben Ledi Grits of the Perthshire succession, while ..., one in which quartzite is a not uncommon lithology, unlike the overlying Southern Highland Group seen at the previous locality. ...
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  • ...ng as a syndepositional fault during the sedimentation of Argyll Group and Southern Highland Group Dalradian rocks. Recent field work and detailed ground magnetic surveys ove ...
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  • ...uded the southern margin. The Buchan Block exposes upper Argyll Group and Southern Highland Group rocks which are affected by ‘Buchan type’ metamorphism and deformed into a ...st’ section the older parts of the Grampian Group and younger parts of the Southern Highland Group are absent. Some elements of the Dalradian sequence mapped inland are also ...
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  • ...d rocks cut by 750 Ma pegmatites, upwards into Grampian, Appin, Argyll and Southern Highland group rocks, all of which were affected by orogenesis at 600 Ma or younger and by ...
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  • ...Steep Belt, even up to and across the ‘Boundary Slide’. At first only the Southern Highland Group and upper parts of the Argyll Group are exposed, but at the deeper structur ...at which point the Grampian Group rocks are juxtaposed against Argyll and Southern Highland Group rocks marking the trace of Bridge of Balgie Fault. ...
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  • Features typical of D2 deformation of Southern Highland Group rocks in the Aberfoyle district. Interpretations of these structural phenom ...in-bedded quartzose psammite in the Loch Katrine Volcaniclastic Formation, Southern Highland Group. The fold verges to the south-east. The S1 cleavage has been reactivated to ...
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  • ...a series of fault-bounded basins. Submarine fan deposits recognised in the Southern Highland Group draped over the faults controlling basin development on a subsiding contine ...at the succession is essentially autochthonous, passing downwards from the Southern Highland Group into an Argyll Group succession which correlates with that farther to the s ...
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  • ...Fault. To the left are slightly metamorphosed greywackes of the Dalradian Southern Highland Group.]] Walk round Craigeven Bay, crossing over Dalradian grits and phyllites of the Southern Highland Group, to the north-east side and cross the thick fault rock. In the small bay 30 ...
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  • ...are numerous exposures of the Aberfoyle Grits and Slates belonging to the Southern Highland Group of the Upper Dalradian. It is possible to determine the way up of the strat ...
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  • ...this area; to examine the metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Dalradian Southern Highland Group; to elucidate views on the overall structure, particularly of the Benachall ...rocks of the southeast part of the Grampian Highlands belong mainly to the Southern Highland Group of the Dalradian Supergroup (Figure P1). They comprise interbedded gritty m ...
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  • ...art of the Argyll Group (Easdale, Crinan and Tayvallich subgroups) and the Southern Highland Group. The area contains several lithologically distinctive formations that can b ...y that enables us to determine the regional structure here. The underlying Southern Highland Group arenites, wackes and semipelites, here with garnetiferous pelite interbeds, ...
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  • ...ary study of the petrology of the Green Beds and associated rocks from the Southern Highland Group of the Scottish Dalradian. ''British Geological Survey Technical Report'', ...
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  • ...cks of the Birnam Slate and Grit Formation and the Dunkeld Grit Formation (Southern Highland Group). ...y Nappe were originally interbedded grit, sand and mud and are part of the Southern Highland Group, the second youngest group in the Dalradian Supergroup. The thickest slate ...
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  • ...twards to Whitehills. All the rock lie within the Macduff slate Formation (Southern Highland Group). The rocks at Tarlair lie just west of the regional Turriff Syncline, whic ...
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  • ...up succession progressively to the south-west. The more typical turbiditic Southern Highland Group rocks, mainly arenite (psammite) and pelite, are represented by the Macduff ...
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  • ...Devonian rocks crop out on the foreshore but are faulted against Dalradian Southern Highland Group arenitesand pelites of the Macduff Slate Formation that form the headland b ...Macduff – Tarlair Tayvallich and Crinan Subgroup rocks – the Boyne Line – Southern Highland Group rocks – Buchan metamorphic zones. (Wed 18<sup>th</sup> May 2005) ]] ...
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  • ...minantly inverted gritty and pelitic metagreywackes. Collieston Formation, Southern Highland Group, Devil’s Study, near Whinnyfold, Aberdeenshire. P002878.]] ...slaty cleavages, but in the meta-greywackes, which constitute most of the Southern Highland Group, spaced cleavages fan around fold closures. Increased deformation during su ...
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  • ...ne, with subsidiary slaty metasiltstone and metamudstone, of the uppermost Southern Highland Group occupy much of the northern part of the island. They were displaced and fol ...
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  • ...Grits and the pelitic Aberfoyle Slates, both part of the Upper Dal-radian Southern Highland Group, the latter seen only in the south of the area. Structurally they are invol ...
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  • ...In the afternoon we traversed up the ridge of Benachally across more mixed Southern Highland Group lithologies (gritty quartzose arenites, feldspathic arenites, wackes, semip ...minor folding (F2) and are mapped as defining a major fold closure. In the Southern Highland Group rocks some amphibole-bearing units may represent ‘Green Beds’, volcaniclast ...
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  • ...district. The location of the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian boundary within the Southern Highland Group succession is conjectural. The inferred lithostratigraphical relationship b ...sp;3]] and [[Media:AberfoyleSD_fig4.jpg|Figure&nbsp;4]]), and of these the Southern Highland Group occupies more than 90 per cent of the Dalradian outcrop. ...
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  • ...ed Neogene gravels at Windy Hills and the structure and lithologies of the Southern Highland Group rocks at Collieston. ...
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  • ...loped in steeply dipping, interstratified semipelites and psammites of the Southern Highland Group on the western side of Gamrie Bay [[Media:P915373.png|(P915373)]]; the slip ...
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  • ...the Easdale Subgroup but, since the formation appears to pass upwards into Southern Highland Group lithologies, it must be regarded as ‘Argyll Group–undivided’. Semipelites a ...counts have included the majority of these volcanic rocks in the overlying Southern Highland Group, following Harris and Pitcher (1975), who correlate them all with the Green ...
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  • ...–mica schists and mica schists of the Leny–Ben Ledi Grits Formation of the Southern Highland Group of the late Proterozoioc Dalradian Supergroup. They are on the inverted low ...
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  • ...ll composed of 600 million year-old metasedimentary rocks belonging to the Southern Highland Group of the Dalradian Supergroup. Situated on part of the overturned limb of the ...
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  • ...nd D Stephenson. C W Thomas undertook mainly reconnaissance mapping of the Southern Highland Group in the Turriff district (Sheet 86E) and mapped along the northern margin of ...
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  • ...rocks of the Grampian, Appin and Argyll Group and wacke sandstones of the Southern Highland Group. Metamorphosed limestones have also been quarried for this purpose (see bel Quarrying of Dalradian Southern Highland Group pelitic rocks for roofing slate was once a major activity in the ‘Slate Hil ...
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  • ...hange in the stratigraphy and structure. Strongly folded Appin, Argyll and Southern Highland Group rocks were abundant to the south, structurally above the ‘slide’, whereas l ...
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  • ...le 13.1 Stratigraphy of the Dalradian rocks of the Rosneath–Loch Long area Southern Highland Group south of the Aberfoyle Anticline north of the Aberfoyle Anticline Bulirock ...on consists of a south-to-north traverse across the Dalradian rocks of the Southern Highland Group [[Media:GSG_GLA_FIG_13_01.jpg|(Figure 13.1)]]. Starting at the Highland Bou ...
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  • ...cts are dominated by those assigned to the youngest constituent group, the Southern Highland Group. These rocks occupy most of the ground east of the Huntly and Knock mafic-u ...s (sandstones) and argillites (mudstones and siltstones) in the turbiditic Southern Highland Group to their recrystallised and gneissose metamorphic equivalents that retain n ...
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  • | rowspan="5" | Southern Highland Group ...ddle part of the Argyll Group and this facies is dominant in the overlying Southern Highland Group. These younger arenites, semipelites and pelites were largely deposited fro ...
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  • ...r Argyll Group rocks. The sequence passes eastwards up into the turbiditic Southern Highland Group rocks in mid-Aberdeenshire (Figure&nbsp;4.1). ...
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  • ...and lower Argyll group rocks to the west-north-west from upper Argyll and Southern Highland group rocks intruded by mafic-ultramafic plutons of the North-east Grampian Basic ...nian Turriff outlier (Figure 11). The syncline is developed largely in the Southern Highland Group turbiditic sequence, but the detailed structural pattern is controlled by t ...
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  • ...n garnetiferous mica-schist, psammitic schist and hornblende-schist of the Southern Highland Group. Although thin (0.1–0.5 m), the structures can contain up to 350 g/t Au, in ...
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  • ...Aberchirder biotite granite are widely and deeply weathered. In contrast, Southern Highland Group rocks and Devonian sandstones and conglomerates are less significantly affe ...
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  • The Clyde site is located on bedrock belonging to the Southern Highland Group (Figure 6). These form part of Dalradian Supergroup, and are probably of Or ...
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  • ...t marked the onset of dominantly turbiditic sedimentation, now manifest by Southern Highland Group metasedimentary rocks. ...reenschist-grade psammites and semipelites of the Macduff Slate Formation (Southern Highland Group) on its eastern side where a prominent hornfelsed zone containing cordierit ...
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