bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Trilobites from the Upper Ordovician Tangtou Formation, Jiangsu Province, China
Authors: Tripp Ronald P. , Zhou Zhiyi , Pan Zhenqin 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTForty-one species assigned to thirty-seven named genera of trilobites are described from the Tangtou Formation at Tangshan and Lunshan, in Jiangsu Province, SE China.Nankinolithus nankinensisLu, the Zone fossil of the upper part of the Formation, is abundant. Many Tangtou Formation species occur also in the Huangnehkan, Linhsiang and Chiencaokou formations, and all are considered to be of early Ashgill age. The trilobites are closely related to those of theStaurocephalus clavifronsZone (Rawtheyan) of Poland, demonstrating the long duration and wide extent of deeper water faunas. There are also close links with the Ashgill faunas of Central Asia.One new species,Amphitryon cheni, is established. The following morphological features are described: a small remopleuridine hypostome is unlike any other in construction;Nileus transversusretains genal spines to full grown size in some specimens, but loses them in others; the hypostome lacks the posteromedian cusp of other species. The hypostome ofParaphillipsinellais strongly styginid in conformation, and unlike that ofPhillipsinella. Telephina convexais the only species known with three spines on the librigena. The arrangement of pits inNankinolithus nankinensis, the type species, is described, including illustrations of the irregularities which occur in every fringe. A small bulb at the tip of the hypostome ofOvalocephalus(=Hammatocnemis) bears two backwardly pointing spinules, one above the other, on the vertical posterior margin. Three types of protaspides, and numerous meraspid parts are described.
Polyphase fold analysis of gneisses and migmatites
Authors: Hopgood A. M. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTIn spite of the structural complexity of polyphase deformed gneisses and migmatites and the absence of distinctive marker horizons, these rocks are amenable to structural investigation and interpretation with resolution of their tectonic history possible, particularly in regions of reasonable exposure. Although methods such as those employing interpretation of stereo-plots can seldom be used, direct observation of refold relationships on the outcrop using all available structural, igneous and metamorphic features will ultimately lead to the resolution of the deformational history. This is achieved by determining the relationships of fold sets observed at the various localities examined throughout the field of investigation and then combining these by correlation according to basic stratigraphical principles. The effects of weak deformation normally not discernible in complicated successions may be detected by the simple form of folded planar and linear structures in igneous masses emplaced in complex structures at intermediate stages in the deformational history.Synthesis of the total succession and determination of the overall sequence of deformation in particularly complex terranes is made easier if at least one distinctive set of structures can be recognised throughout the area. These key structures have the effect of subdividing the long succession into two in which refold relationships are generally more easily determined. An example of the method is given using photographs from the migmatite terrane in southern Finland.
Hornblende-garnet metapyroxenite beneath serpentinite in the Ballantrae complex of SW Scotland and its bearing on the depth provenance of obducted oceanic lithosphere
Authors: Treloar P. J. , Bluck B. J. , Bowes D. R. , Dudek Arnošt 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTMinimum T and P conditions for the crystallisation of banded amphibole (tschermakitic pargasite)-bearing garnet metapyroxenites that occur beneath and within a tectonically emplaced unit of serpentinite are 900±70°C and 10–11 (possibly 14–15) kb. This indicates both a depth provenance of at least 35–45 km for the obducted oceanic lithosphre which forms part of the ophiolite assemblage of the Ballantrae complex and also a palaeoheat-flow of at least 20°C/km. The metapyroxenites are interpreted as representing the products of subsolidus recrystallisation of a mantle accumulate pyroxenite. Together with associated amphibolites and epidote-rich mylonites formed at higher levels, they constitute a thin, transported and telescoped aureole made up of tectonic pieces of successively-formed metamorphic rocks that welded on to the base of an upward-moving and progressively-cooling peridotite slab.Estimates of temperature of recrystallisation of the metapyroxenites were obtained using the garnet-pyroxene and garnet-amphibole exchange reactions as geothermometers. Estimates of pressure were obtained from assessments of the stability fields of the amphiboles, clinopyroxenes and garnets present and of the mineral assemblages in relation to published studies on the eclogite-granulite-amphibolite facies system.
Stratigraphy in an accretionary prism: the Ordovician rocks in North Down, Ireland
Authors: Craig Lorraine E. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTSediments, mainly sandstones, conglomerates and shales, accumulated in small turbidite fans along the northern arc–trench margin of the Iapetus Ocean from middle Ordovician to Silurian time. These fans, together with the underlying pelagic facies and part of the oceanic crust, were sliced and accreted northward resulting in the Lower Palaeozoic accretionary prism which forms the Scottish Southern Uplands and the Longford-Down inlier in Ireland. North Down is the continuation of the Northern belt of the Southern Uplands of Scotland into Ireland, bounded to the S by the Orlock Bridge fault. Lithological and petrographical comparison with the rest of the Northern belt indicates closer affinities with the Southern Uplands of Scotland than with the western end of the Longford-Down inlier. Major ENE—WSW-trending Caledonian strike faults define five blocks, in which new formations of Caradoc and ? Ashgill age are defined. Pillowed spilitic rock, interpreted as a fragment of the ocean-floor, is only recognised in the Ballygrot block. Pelagic and hemipelagic black shales and cherts are overlain by arenaceous sediments in all blocks.
Age constraints on basement of the Midland Valley of Scotland
Authors: Aftalion M. , van Breemen O. , Bowes D. R. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTThe existence of a basement of granulite beneath the Midland Valley is supported by investigations of inclusions in volcanic rocks and the geophysical studies of the LISPB experiment. To establish age constraints for this basement, a compilation is presented of available Rb–Sr whole-rock, common lead, U–Pb zircon and Sm–Nd radiometrie data for crystalline rocks in Scotland from the earliest recognised crust (c. 2900 Ma) to 380 Ma (“end” of Caledonian orogeny) including xenoliths in volcanic vents and boulders in conglomerates.For rocks within the Midland Valley, isotopic data provide four lines of evidence. (1) An upper intercept U–Pb age of c. 1700 Ma for detrital zircons from a lower Palaeozoic greywacke from Dalmellington corresponds to a late stage of the Laxfordian orogenic episode (early Proterozoic) with possibly some overprinting during the Grenvillian episode (mid Proterozoic). (2) The common lead composition of the Distinkhorn granite suggests the participation of early Proterozoic basement during granite emplacement. (3) For xenoliths from the Carboniferous Partan Craig vent, one gives a Sm–Nd CHUR model age of 1180 ± 55 Ma, a second yielded a Sm–Nd garnet—potassium feldspar age of 356 ± 6 Ma and an upper intercept U–Pb age from zircons from the third is c. 2200 (± 240) Ma; for xenoliths from other vents, an Rb–Sr whole-rock isochron of 1101 ± 63 Ma and an Sm–Nd model age of c. 1100 Ma arerecorded. (4) A linear array corresponding to an apparent age of 770 ± 180 Ma on a Pb–Pb isochron diagram for Tertiary igneous rocks of Arran points to an underlying basement of late Precambrian orthogneiss.The existence of basement made of products of the Grenvillian episode, or predominantly so, similar to the basement N of the Highland Boundary fault, is not inconsistent with the available evidence. However, zircons and other rock components appear to have an ultimate Lewisian provenance. At least in parts, there is also a strong late Proterozoic imprint. Further studies are required for an unequivocal solution.
U–Pb isotopic ages from a granulite-facies xenolith from Partan Craig in the Midland Valley of Scotland
Authors: Halliday A. N. , Aftalion M. , Upton Brian G. J. , Aspen Peder , Jocelyn J. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTU–Pb isotopie data for zircons from a granulite-facies xenolith from a volcanic vent at Partan Craig in the southeastern part of the Midland Valley of Scotland display evidence of an early Proterozoic (>2·0 Ga) component. The xenolith is probably relict metasediment and the data therefore indicate old detritus in the sedimentary precursor. The exact ages of sedimentation and metamorphism are uncertain but these must be compatible with Sm–Nd data on similar xenolithic fragments from the same locality which constrain the ages to c. 1–0 Ga or younger.
Interpretation of Pb isotope compositions of galenas from the Midland Valley of Scotland and adjacent regions
Authors: Parnell John , Swainbank Ian 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTThe lead isotope compositions of 61 galenas from central and southern Scotland vary markedly between different regions. Most galenas from the southern Grampian Highlands yield isotope ratios (206Pb/204Pb 17·77 ± 0·25, 207Pb/204Pb 15·47 ± 0·05, 208Pb/204Pb 37·63 ± 0·26) less radiogenic than those from Midland Valley galenas (18·22 ± 0·12, 15·55 ± 0·05, 38·13 ± 0·14) whilst galena lead from the Southern Uplands (18·28 ± 0·12, 15·56 ± 0·03, 38·21 ± 0·18) is more radiogenic than that from the southern Midland Valley (18·12 ± 0·06, 15·52 ± 0·02, 38·06 ±0·10). The change in isotopie composition across the Highland Boundary fault reflects the presence or absence of Dalradian rocks which included a magmatic component of lead. Galenas from the Dalradian sequence in Islay, where igneous rocks are lacking, have a composition (18·14±0·04, 15·51±0·01, 37·90±0·02) more like Midland Valley galenas. In the Southern Uplands, galenas yield lead isotope ratios similar to those of feldspars from Caledonian granite (18·30 ± 0·14, 15·57 ± 0·04, 37·96 ± 0·15) analysed by Blaxland et al. (1979). The similar ratios reflect the incorporation of Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks into the granite magma, rather than a granitic source for the mineralisation. The granites were then thermal-structural foci for later mineralising fluids which leached metals from the surrounding rocks. Within the Midland Valley, galenas hosted in Lower Devonian-Lower Carboniferous lavas are notably more radiogenic (18·31 ±0·12, 15·58 ± 0·06, 38·20 ± 0·16) than sediment-hosted galenas (18·14 ± 0·07, 15·52 ± 0·02, 38·08 ± 0·10). The Devonian lavas at least may have inherited lead from subducted (? Lower Palaeozoic) rock incorporated in the primary magma.
Aspects of the post-depositional evolution of Dalradian and Highland Border Complex rocks in the Southern Highlands of Scotland
Authors: Harte B. , Booth J. E. , Dempster T. J. , Fettes D. J. , Mendum J. R. , Watts D. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTPalaeomagnetic data define a polar wander path for the Dalradian tectonic block of the Scottish Highlands but resolve no relative motion between the Dalradian and Midland Valley blocks from early Ordo vician onwards. The history of structural episodes (D1to D4) is traced for the Dalradian rocks of the Southern Highlands, and peak metamorphic temperatures are closely associated with D3in the 520–490 Ma (early Ordovician) time period, whilst retrograde events are mostly associated with D4. Throughout the structural history, the influence of a lineament or lineaments parallel to the Highland Border is seen and is particularly demonstrated by the formation of the major Highland Border downbend (D4) structure. This monoform is interpreted as lying structurally above a major step in the basement and is associated with uplift of the Dalradian flat belt in the period 460–440 Ma (late Ordovician).The mechanism of emplacement of the slivers of Highland Border Complex (HBC) rocks adjacent to the Dalradian Supergroup along the Highland Boundary fault zone is considered given that structural and palaeontological evidence indicates the emplacement to be post- D3in the Dalradian rocks. The steep attitude of rocks along the Highland Boundary fault zone is probably due to vertical movements but either thrust or strike-slip movements are also indicated. Thrust emplacement prior to downbend formation (D4in the Dalradian rocks) would also precede uplift and have to take place at considerable depth (10–20 km). Thrust emplacement subsequent to downbend formation is difficult to reconcile with the existing structural relations, whilst strike-slip motion offers a straightforward mechanism of placement.
Geophysical model for the Midland Valley of Scotland
Authors: Davidson K. A. S. , Sola M. , Powell D. W. , Hall J. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTA summary of previous gravity and magnetic field interpretations is presented along with a review of the LOWNET and LISPB models. Recently acquired seismological data are compared with the LISPB upper crustal model. The LISPB Layer 1 is found to represent an average of lower velocity (VP = 3·0–3·7 km s−1) Carboniferous and Upper Old Red Sandstone sediments, and higher velocity (VP = 4·0–5·5 km s−1) Lower Old Red Sandstone and Lower Palaeozoic sediments.On the basis of high P-wave velocities along strike (VP = 60·6–1 km s−1), the LISPB Layer 2 S of Glasgow and Edinburgh is re-interpreted as a quartzofeldspathic crystalline layer of igneous or metamorphic origin, which is also seen to cross the surface of the Southern Uplands fault at around 2·5 km depth.This interpretation implies that within the southern part of the Midland Valley, the Lower Palaeozoic sediments are nowhere thicker than about 3 km, as postulated under the Silurian inliers, and generally much less.
Sm—Nd ages from the Ballantrae complex, SW Scotland
Authors: Hamilton P. J. , Bluck B. J. , Halliday A. N. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTThe Ballantrae complex has yielded its oldest yet determined age of 576 ± 32 Ma from an Sm–Nd internal isochron for a block ‘eclogite’ interpreted as being a component of the mélange-olistostrome unit at Knockormal. This unit is possibly older than the main ophiolitic part of the complex and the ‘eclogite’ block provides evidence for the existence of oceanic crust older than c. 575 Ma on the southern margin of the Laurentian shield.An Sm–Nd internal isochron from a high-grade metapyroxenite in the metamorphic aureole beneath an obducted slab of mantle peridotite at Laigh Knocklaugh yields an age of 505 ± 11 Ma. This is interpreted as close to the age of metamorphism and is older than the K–Ar age of 478 ± 8 Ma determined for the amphibolites of the aureole which underlie the metapyroxenite. The metapyroxenite had a provenance deeper in the oceanic crust than the amphibolite and the former has been structurally detached and justaposed against the latter in this telescoped metamorphic sequence.
Geochemistry of peridotites, gabbros and trondhjemites of the Ballantrae complex, SW Scotland
Authors: Jelínek E. , Souček J. , Řanda Z. , Jakeš P. , Bluck B. J. , Bowes D. R. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTMajor and trace element, including REE, analytical data are used as bases for interpreting the petrogenesis of the major igneous components of the northern part of the Ballantrae complex which occurs in the southwestern part of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Most of the peridotite, now serpentinised, is similar to ultramafic rocks in other ophiolite complexes. Mean crystallisation conditions, determined on the basis of co-existing orthopy-roxenes and clinopyroxenes for the dominant peridotite and minor pyroxenite were 1060 (±60)°C—20 (±2) kb and 1240 (±89)°C—25 (±25) kb, respectively. These rocks, of mantle provenance, have compositions consistent with being residues after the extraction of 20–30% of tholeiitic material from the mantle. The presence among them of a rock whose REE contents indicate that it is a plagioclase peridotite, point to the tectonic incorporation of the products of a high level magma chamber.The mafic parts of the complex have tholeiitic characteristics and developed between 1300° and 1100°C. They do not represent primary mantle melt but fractionated material. Clinopyroxene was the main fractionating phase and more than 10% fractional crystallisation is indicated with increase from gabbros, through beerbachites (metadolerites) of a sheeted dyke complex and pillow lavas, to microgabbros and pyroxene diorites. Biotite diorites and trondhjemites represent the most fractionated products, the latter having affinities with ophiolitic plagiogranites.The beerbachites of the sheeted dyke complex do not all represent the same stage of fractionation. The pillow lavas have REE patterns similar to rocks found in marginal basins but are markedly different from pillow lavas from the Highland Border Complex in Arran, near the northern margin of the Midland Valley.
Provenance of the Old Red Sandstone: Pb isotope evidence from Arran, western Scotland
Authors: Dickin A. P. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTOld Red Sandstone sediments from Arran in western Scotland yield an array of Pb isotope compositions whose slope corresponds to an age of 1830 ± 400 Ma. These compositions are not consistent with a significant contribution of material from the Southern Highlands, Midland Valley, or Southern Uplands, but are similar to the Torridonian sandstones of NW Scotland. Bearing in mind the probable Laxfordian provenance of the Torridonian assemblage, this points to a source for the Old Red Sandstone in a crustal block of early Proterozoic age corresponding to the age of the Laxfordian episode. Since such a source is not presently in a position to yield the Old Red Sandstone, strike-slip movement along the Highland Boundary fault is a strong possibility.
Geochemical contrasts between late Caledonian granitoid plutons of northern, central and southern Scotland
Authors: Stephens W. E. , Halliday A. N. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTNew major- and trace-element data for granitoid plutons from the Grampian Highlands, the Midland Valley and the Southern Uplands of Scotland are presented and discussed. The study is restricted to ‘late granitoids’ (all younger than 430 Ma); the term ‘granitoid’ is used in a wide sense to encompass all plutonic components of a zoned intrusion of this age, sometimes including diorites and ultrabasic cumulate rocks. The data indicate that as a whole the province is chemically high-K calc-alkalic. Other notable enrichments are in Sr and Ba, and a marked geographical difference in these trace-elements is found between plutons of the SW Grampian Highlands and those of the Southern Highlands, the Midland Valley, and the Southern Uplands. Plutons of the NE Highlands tend to be more geochemically evolved than those further SW and those of the Midland Valley and Southern Uplands.When petrographical and geochemical data are considered, three plutonic suites are recognised: (1) the Cairngorm suite comprising plutons of the NE Highlands, (2) the Argyll suite comprising plutons from the SW Highlands, and (3) the S of Scotland suite comprising plutons from the Southern Highlands, Midland Valley and the Southern Uplands excluding Criffell and the Cairnsmore of Fleet. It is proposed that the more acidic granitoids are dominantly the products of I-type crustal sources, but certain diorites and the more basic members of zoned plutons have a substantial mantle component. The elevated Sr and Ba levels in granitoids of the Argyll suite may reflect the influence of incompatible-element-rich fluids from the mantle in the petrogenesis of this suite. The relatively anhydrous pyroxene-mica diorites of the S of Scotland suite are richer in Ni and Cr and appear to represent mantle-derived melts. The relationships between these data and already published isotopic data are discussed.
Tectonic development and stratigraphy at the western margin of the Caledonides: Islay and Colonsay, Scotland
Authors: Fitches W. R. , Maltman A. J. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTIslay and Colonsay occupy a crucial position in the Caledonian frontal zone S of the Great Glen fault in western Scotland. However, some of the stratigraphical units which comprise these islands are of doubtful age as they have tectonic boundaries and contain no fossils or distinctive lithological components. New information is presented here on the deformational histories and styles of the rocks and this has prompted a reassessment of their stratigraphical position and a major reinterpretation of t0he tectonism of this frontal zone.In contrast to the conventional view, all the stratigraphical units have been deformed together during a regional shearing event. The Colonsay Group contains intrafolial and sheath folds and has a pronounced linear fabric which is parallel to grain elongations in parts of the Bowmore and Dalradian sequences. Most junctions between the Colonsay Group and basement of the Lewisian complex are highly sheared. The junction between the Bowmore Group and Dalradian Supergroup is also tectonised and is normally referred to as the Loch Skerrols thrust but here as a shear zone. This structure is shown not to be a profound discontinuity, alone representing the Caledonian front S of the Great Glen fault, but one element in a major flat-lying NW-directed ductile shear zone. The Caledonian front therefore lies to the W of the islands.The Bowmore Group is suggested to be a lateral equivalent of the Crinan Grits in the Dalradian Supergroup, lying in the overturned sheared limb of the Islay anticline. The age of the Colonsay Group remains enigmatic; the identification of previously unrecognised early structures which may precede shearing in the Grampian episodes of the Caledonian orogenic cycle allows the possibility of a pre-Caledonian deformation of the Group.
Oxroadopteris parvusgen. et sp. nov.: a protostelic Lower Carboniferous pteridosperm from Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland
Authors: Long Albert G. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTOxroadopteris parvusgen. et sp. nov. is described from a single incomplete curved stem, 12 cm long and 8 mm diameter, having a cylindrical exarch protostele and sparganum outer cortex. Attached are 8 incomplete bifurcate petioles in probably 2/5 phyllotaxy. Each petiole has a swollen base with sclerotic nests. Petiole lengths increase upwards. Each petiolar trace is small, U-shaped in cross-section, bipolar, and divides to form similar smaller bundles in two secondary rachises.
Devonian miospores from Papa Stour, Shetland
Authors: Marshall J. E. A. 
Published: November 2011

ABSTRACTDevonian miospores have been discovered in the previously poorly dated Old Red Sandstone volcanic sequence of Papa Stour. They occur at two sites in minor sedimentary deposits between the lavas, and fossil fish remains are also present. The age range of the miospores is mid Eifelian to early Givetian, probably more specifically late Eifelian and from a position close to the Achanarras horizon. This allows a correlation of the Papa Stour volcanic sequence with that of the Upper Stromness Flags of Orkney and not the tuffaceous horizons in the Eday Sandstones. The good preservation and composition of the miospores indicate a close similarity to other Orcadian Basin sediments and support the view that the Old Red Sandstone sequences W of the Melby Fault have affinities with the Orkney and Caithness successions rather than with Shetland. The age of the volcanic sequence also provides a valuable datum point for plate tectonic models based on the geochemistry of Old Red Sandstone lavas.