Bailey, et al. 1924. Tertiary and Post-Tertiary geology of Mull, Loch Aline, and Oban (a description of parts of sheets 43, 44, 51, and 52 of the geological map). HMSO [for Geological Survey]

Tertiary and Post-Tertiary geology of Mull, Loch Aline, and Oban (a description of parts of sheets 43, 44, 51, and 52 of the geological map)

By E. B. Bailey, M.C., B.A.; C. T. Clough, LL.D., M.A.; W. B. Wright, B.A.; J. E. Richey, M.C., B.A.; and G. V. Wilson, B.Sc.

With contributions by E. M. Anderson, M.A., B.Sc.; H. B. Maufe, B.A..;G.W. Lee, D.Sc.; B. Lightfoot, M.C.., B.A.; T. O. Bosworth, M.A., D.Sc.; and G. A. Burnett, B.Sc. With petrology by H. H. Thomas, M.A., Sc.D., AND E. B. Bailey, M.C., B.A. With chemical analyses by E. G. Radley, F.G.S., and F. R. Ennos, B.A., B.Sc., A.I.C. and palaobotany by A. C. Seward, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., and R. E. Holttum, M.A.

Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland

Contents

 

Tertiary and Post-Tertiary geology of Mull, Loch Aline, and Oban Title page and preliminaries

 

Chapter 1 General introduction

Itinerary — Mull

Chapter 2 History of research

3–4 Sediments

     Chapter 3 Tertiary sediments of Mull and Loch Aline

     Chapter 4 Tertiary plants from Mull

5–10 Basalt and mugearite lavas

Chapter 5 Basalt and mugearite lavas: introduction

Chapter 6 Basalt and mugearite lavas: outside pneumatolysis limit Sheet 44

Chapter 7 Basalt and mugearite lavas: outside pneumatolysis limit. Sheets 43, 51, and 52

Chapter 8 Basalt and mugearite lavas: between pneumatolysis limit and central calderas. Sheet 44

Chapter 9 Basalt lavas of central calderas. Sheet 44

Chapter 10 Petrology of basalt and mugearite lavas

Chapter 11 Various dolerites and gabbros

Chapter 12 Early granophyres

Chapter 13 Tertiary tectonics of Mull and Loch Aline

Chapter 14 Syenite, trachytes, and bostonites

15–16 Explosion-phenomena

Chapter 15 Surface-agglomerates later than the basalt-lavas

Chapter 16 Agglomerates or breccias of vents

Chapter 17 Beinn Mheadhon, Torness, and Creag na h'Iolaire felsites

Chapter 18 Gaodhail and Cruachan augite-diorites

Chapter 19 Intermediate and acid cone-sheets

Chapter 20 Loch Uisg granophyre and gabbro

Chapter 21 Early Basic Cone-Sheets

Chapter 22 Ben Buie, Corra-Bheinn, and Beinn Bheag gabbros

23–27 Sheets exclusive of cone-sheets

Chapter 23 Sheets exclusive of cone-sheets: South-West Mull. Introduction and Loch Scridain

Chapter 24 Sheets exclusive of cone-sheets: south-west Mull. Loch Scridain xenoliths

Chapter 25 Sheets exclusive of cone-sheets: south-west Mull. Loch Scridain petrology

Chapter 26 Sheets exclusive of cone-sheets: south-west Mull. Gribun and Ben More

Chapter 27 Sheets exclusive of cone-sheets: elsewhere in Mull and neighbourhood

Chapter 28 Late basic cone-sheets

29–32 Ring-dykes and central intrusions

Chapter 29 Ring-dykes between Glen More and Beinn Chàisgidle

Chapter 30 Gravitational differentiation

Chapter 31 Glen Cannel Granophyre and associated felsites

Chapter 32 The ring-dykes of Loch Bà, Beinn a' Ghràig, and Knock

Chapter 33 Hybrids of Sròn nam Boc and Coille na Sròine Loch Bà

34–35 Dykes

Chapter 34 Dykes

Chapter 35 Camptonites, etc., of doubtful age

36–37 Post-igneous history

Chapter 36 Post-volcanic and Pre-Glacial

Chapter 37 Glacial and Recent

Chapter 38 Economics

Appendix 1 List of Geological Survey photographs

Appendix 2 Bibliography

Figures, plates and tables

Tables revised

Hand specimen photographs from the BGS Systematic Series — locations on Mull

Links to BGS 6" County Series maps Mull