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Age of the Girvan-Ballantrae Serpentine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. G. C. Anderson
J. G. C. Anderson
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Carnegie Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
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Between Kennedy's Pass, 4 miles south of Girvan, and Currarie Port, 3½ miles south of Ballantrae, the coast is occupied by a varied assemblage of igneous rocks that have a north-easterly strike and extend inland for several miles (Text-fig. 1). The most important members of this assemblage are a series of spilite lavas and two large outcrops of serpentine. In the present paper it is not intended to give a general description of these rocks, but to concentrate upon the age-relationship of the serpentine to the lavas and associated sediments, in which Lapworth and later workers discovered Arenig fossils.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 73 , Issue 12 , December 1936 , pp. 535 - 545
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1936

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