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Note on some new localities for Gyrolite and Tobermorite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

James Currie
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Since the mineral gyrolite was described and analysed by Anderson from Storr in Skye in 1851, it has been recorded from a considerable number of other places in that island. The writer observed it at the mouth of the burn called Allt Mòr, between Loch Brittle and Loch Eynort, and has now to record it from Rudha nan Clach at the mouth of Loch Bracadale, which brings the number of localities at present known in Skye up to fourteen. In fact, the mineral may be said to occur all along the south-western shore, all along the eastern escarpment, and at the more isolated localities of Lyndale and Portree. Similarly, it occurs in the other trap islands—the Treshnish group, Mull, Muck, Eigg, Canna, and Sanday, upon the last of which it has been observed by the writer at Stac nan Faoilean.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 64 , May 1905 , pp. 93 - 95
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1905

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References

Page 93 note 1 Heddle, M. F., ‘The Mineralogy of Scotland,’ 1901. vol. ii, p. 98.Google Scholar

Page 93 note 2 A reported occurrence in Stirlingshire was shown by Lacroix to refer probably to thomsonite (Bull. Soc. franç. Min., 1887, vol. x, p. 148).

Page 93 note 3 ‘The Mineralogy of Scotland,’ 1901, vol. ii, p. 88.

Page 94 note 1 See Heddle, , Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, 1892, vol. ix, p. 254 Google Scholar.

Page 94 note 2 Cf. ‘The Mineralogy of Scotland,’ 1901. vol. ii, p. 92.

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Page 95 note 1 Johnstrup, F., ‘Gieseckes mineralogiske Rejse i Grønland,’ Kjøbenhavn, 1878, p. 245 Google Scholar.

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