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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
The absence of china clay from Scotland has been used as a weighty argument in favour of the pneumatolytic or deep-seated origin of the great china clay masses of Cornwall and Devonshire, of southern Sweden, and of some of those in Germany. Kaolin, which is often regarded—I think correctly—as a synonym of china clay, and kaolinite, have, however, been occasionally recorded as occurring in Scotland. A reported occurrence at Troon may be easily dismissed. Thus it is only recorded doubtfully, with the remark that its composition has not been determined, by J. Sommerville and G. R. Thompson, while John Smith describes it as a bed of finegrained volcanic dust deposited in water. Kaolinite has been recorded by Heddle from several Scottish localities; thus it is found in minute crystals in Shetland, and in a vein at the head of Glen Capel at Abington, Lanarkshire.
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