Short Paper: The depositional age of the Dalradian Supergroup: U-Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic studies of the Tayvallich Volcanics, Scotland

N. Halliday, Alex; M. Graham, Colin; Aftalion, M.; Dymoke, Peter

doi:10.1144/gsjgs.146.1.0003

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Short Paper: The depositional age of the Dalradian Supergroup: U-Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic studies of the Tayvallich Volcanics, Scotland

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Authors:

Alex N. Halliday

Colin M. Graham

M. Aftalion

Abstract

Zircons from a keratophyre associated with the Tayvallich Volcanics in the Dalradian rocks of the SW Scottish Highlands have been dated by U-Pb methods, yielding an age of 595 ± 4 Ma. This age indicates that most or all of the Dalradian is Precambrian in age, and that Dalradian sedimentation may hav...

Subject

Dalradian

Supergroup

Geology

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