The early Carboniferous volcanic outliers of Little Cumbrae and south Bute: Implications for westward attenuation of the Clyde Lava Plateau

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-76

  Caldwell, W G E ^a   Young, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

correlation; Dinantian; Firth of Clyde; stratigraphy; volcanic rocks

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; CARBONIFEROUS; CORRELATION; DINANTIAN; OUTLIER; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

FIRTH OF CLYDE; RENFREWSHIRE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79959607703     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011010048     Document Type: Article

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