Early Carboniferous minor intrusions of the Clyde Plateau: New data from the Cumbrae islands

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 227-251

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

chronology; dyke swarms; structural controls; volcanic centres

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CARBONIFEROUS; CHRONOLOGY; DIKE SWARM; EXTRUSION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LAVA; LINEAMENT; PLATEAU; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; VOLCANISM;

FIRTH OF CLYDE; MIDLAND VALLEY; RENFREWSHIRE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84871020688     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011011030     Document Type: Article

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