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III.—A remarkable instance of Rock Differentiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Upon Sheet 339 (Devonshire) of the new Geological Survey maps, one instance out of the very numerous outcrops of igneous rocks thereon indicated proves to be of unusual interest by reason of its peculiar constitutional modifications in different parts of the same mass. The rockin question occurs about four and a quarter miles 15° north of west from Newton Abbot, near to the hamlet of Bickington, within the limits of a farm named Lurcombe. It is an intrusive amidst the shales and grits of the Culm, occurring almost on the junction-line between that series and the Devonian, whose massive limestones and volcanics dominate it in elevation within a quarter of a mile on the south-east.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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References

page 349 note 1 Transactions of Edinburgh Geol. Soc., vol. ix, pt. 2, 1908.Google Scholar

page 349 note 2 Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye: Mem. Geol. Survey, p. 75, p. 123, 1904, and op. cit.

page 349 note 3 Transactions of Royal Geol. Soc. of Cornwall, vol. xii, pt. 6, p. 440, 1900.Google Scholar

page 350 note 1 Op. cit., p. 127.