Scottish Journal of GEOLOGY
Volume i, Part 3, pages 221-312 September 1965
Published for the Geological Societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow by OLIVER & B O Y D LTD
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Editors G. Y. CRAIG R. A. EDEN
W. E. TREMLETT A. C. MCLEAN
DOUGLAS GRANT
Front Page Illustration Hutton's unconformity, Siccar Point
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Scottish Journal of GEOLOGY
Editors G. Y. CRAIG R. A. EDEN
W. E. TREMLETT A. C. MCLEAN
DOUGLAS GRANT
Volume I
1965
Published for the Geological Societies
of Edinburgh and Glasgow by
OLIVER & BOYD LTD
The Scottish Journal of Geology is a new Journal continuing and amalgamating the Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society and the Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, and is sponsored by the councils of the two Societies. The Societies gratefully acknowledge financial help from the Carnegie Trust and the Royal Society.
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Geology 1965
Reproduction of authors' summaries is authorised
Printed in Great Britain by Oliver and Boyd Ltd., Edinburgh
CONTENTS
VOLUME I, PART 1
HARRY, w. T. The form of the Cairngorm Granite Pluton . . . 1
MYKURA, w. The age of the lower part of the New Red Sandstone of
South-West Scotland 9
O'HARA, M. J. Primary magmas and the origin of basalts . . . 19
WEEDON, DOUGLAS s. The layered ultrabasic rocks of Sgurr Dubh, Isle ofSkye . . 41
READ, w. A. Shoreward facies changes and their relation to cyclical sedimentation in part of the Namurian east of Stirling, Scotland . 69
MILLER, j . A. AND p. A. MOHR. Potassium-argon age determinations on rocks from St Kilda and Rockall . . . . . . . 93
VOLUME I, PART 2
RUST, B. R. The stratigraphy and structure of the Whithorn area of Wigtownshire, Scotland 101
LUMSDEN, G. I. AND A. DAVIES. The buried channel of the River Nith and its marked change in level across the Southern Upland Fault . . 134
BROWN, P. E., D. YORK, N. J. SOPER, J. A. MILLER, R. M. MACINTYRE AND
E. FARRAR. Potassium-argon ages of some Dalradian, Moine and related Scottish rocks . . . . . . . . . . 144
MUNRO, M. Some structural features of the Caledonian granitic complex at Strontian, Argyllshire . 1 5 2
MYKURA, w. White trap in some Ayrshire Coals . . . . . 1 7 6
NEVES, R., W. A. READ AND R. B. WILSON. Note on recent spore and goniatite evidence from the Passage Group, of the Scottish Upper Carboniferous succession . . . . . . . . . . . 185
MORTON, NICOL. The Bearreraig Sandstone Series (Middle Jurassic of Skye and Raasay) 189
JOHNSON, M. R. w. AND A. L. HARRIS. Is the Tay Nappe post-Arenig? . 217
IV CONTENTS
VOLUME I, PART 3
JARDINE, w. G. Note on a temporary exposure in central Glasgow of
Quaternary sediments with slump and load structures . . . 221
WTLSON, c. D. v. A marine magnetic survey near Lerwick, Shetland Isles 225
RUST, B. R. The sedimentology and diagenesis of Silurian turbidites in South-east Wigtownshire, Scotland . . . . . . 231
SISSONS, j . B. AND D. E. SMITH. Peat bogs in a Post-glacial sea and a buried raised beach in western Carse of Stirling . . . . . 247
CHEENEY, R. F. AND D. w. MATTHEWS. The structural evolution of the
Tarskavaig and Moine nappes in Skye . . . . . . 256
MERCY, E. L. P. AND M. j . O'HARA. Websterite from Glenelg, Inverness-shire 282
BRAND, p. j . New Lower Cambrian fossil localities in North-west Scotland 285
BOWES, D. R. The West Glasgow Earthquake—7 March 1964 . . . 288
BOWES, D. R. AND s. G. KHOURY. Successive periods of basic dyke emplacement in the Lewisian complex, south of Scourie, Sutherland . . 295
GIBB, FERGUS G. F. A note on the age relationships between Sgurr Dubh Ultrabasic Laccolite and Cuillin Gabbros . . . . . 300
DALZIEL, IAN w. D. AND RICHARD L. BROWN. The structural dating of the sillimanite-grade metamorphism of the Moines in Ardgour (Argyll) and Moidart (Inverness-shire) . . . . . . 304