
Professor Malcolm Hole
BSc, MSc, PhD, SFHEA
Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- m.j.hole@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273434
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Internal Memberships
- Head of Discipline Geology & Geophysics
- Convenor Staff-Student Liaison Committe
- Undergraduate Programme Coordiantor, Geology-Petroleum Geology
- Research
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Research Overview
- Mineralogy
- Alkaline Volcanism
- Volcanology
- Volcanic Stratigraphy
- Geology of Scotland
Current Research
Stratigraphy and volcanology of Large Igneous Provinces.
- Faeroe Islands stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments.
- Magmatism associated with Gondwana fragmentation
- 3-D architecture of basaltic lava fields
- Subsurface geophysical expressions of lava fields
Mantle Melting and peridotite-pyroxenite sources of magmas
- Phase equilibria of peridotite melting
- Phase equlibira of pyroxenite melting
- Fingerprinting pyroxenite and peridotite-sourced magmas
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator.
Course coordinator
- GL1005 Earth Through Geological Time
- GL1505 Earth's Materials
- GL3030 Volcanology
- GO4001 Geoscience Project A
- GO4002 Laboratory Data Acquisition & Analysis
- GO4501 Geoscience Project B
- GL3508 Dissertation
Course Tutor
- GL2510 Field & Mapping Techniques
- GL3520 Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology
- GL4033 Planetary Geology
- GL4023 Geological Mapping Project
- GL5561 Earth & Planetary Surface & Internal Processes
- Publications
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Understanding the petrophysical properties, seismic responses and impacts of the basalt-sediment transition in prospective sedimentary basins
Journal of South American Earth Sciences, vol. 148, 105113Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2024.105113
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High-precision UPb zircon dating of explosive volcanism in an early bi-modal volcano-sedimentary sequence from the Isle of Mull, North Atlantic Igneous Province
Lithos, vol. 482–483, 107729Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLava flow-hosted reservoirs: a review
The Impacts of Igneous Systems on Sedimentary Basins and their Energy Resources. The Geological Society, pp. 357-387, 31 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersIntegrated photogrammetry, lava geochemistry and palynological re-evaluation of the early evolution of the topographically constrained Mull lava field, Scotland
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , vol. 114, no. 3-4, pp. 193 - 217Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFractional crystallization of garnet in alkali basalts at >1.8 GPa and implications for geochemical diversity of Large Igneous Provinces
Lithos, vol. 460-461, 107397Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSlab window related magmatism as a probe for pyroxenite heterogeneities in the upper mantle
Geology, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 268-272Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPaleogene volcanic rocks in the northern Faroe–Shetland Basin and Møre Marginal High: understanding lava field stratigraphy
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 495, pp. 199-235Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP495-2019-13
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Constraints on the formation of basaltic magmas. Comment on “Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth – a review and new perspectives” – by Niu Y.
Earth Science Reviews, vol. 226, 103942Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103942
The Rosebank Field, NE Atlantic: Volcanic characterisation of an inter-lava hydrocarbon discovery
Basin Research, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 2883-2913Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12585
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Magmatic evolution of Low-Ti lavas in the southern Paraná-Etendeka Large Igneous Province
Lithos, vol. 400-401, 106359Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106359
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Characterizing the nature and importance of lava-sediment interactions with the aid of field outcrop analogues
Journal of South American Earth Sciences, vol. 108, 103108Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103108
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Stratigraphy of volcanic rock successions of the North Atlantic Rifted Margin: the offshore record of the Faroe Shetland and Rockall Basins
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 61-88Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAntarctic Peninsula: Volcanology
Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-Up. Smellie, J. L., Panter, K. S., Geyer, A. (eds.). 1 edition. Geological Society of London, pp. 305-325, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsl/books/edited-volume/2349/chapter-abstract/132276383/Chapter-4-1a-Antarctic-Peninsula-volcanology?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/M55-2018-59
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Reply to discussion on ‘Palaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea’, by Quirie et al. 2020 (JGS, 177, 718–737)
Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 178, no. 3, jgs2021-011Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/jgs2021-011
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-011
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Chapter 4.1b Antarctic Peninsula: petrology
Geological Society Memoir, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 327-343Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/m55-2018-40
Development of inter-lava drainage systems in LIPs: The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province (U.S.A.) as a case study
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 90, no. 10, pp. 1346-1369Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.64
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The 3D Facies Architecture and Petrophysical Properties of Hyaloclastite Delta Deposits: An Integrated Photogrammetry and Petrophysical Study from southern Iceland
Basin Research, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1081-1104Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTransient mantle cooling linked to regional volcanic shut-down and early rifting in the North Atlantic Igneous Province
Bulletin of Volcanology, vol. 82, 61Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMagmatism in the North Atlantic Igneous Province; mantle temperatures, rifting and geodynamics
Earth Science Reviews, vol. 206, 102794Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.02.011
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Palaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 177, no. 4, pp. 718-737Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge
Earth Science Reviews, vol. 206, 102926Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926
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Blended and online learning: a comparative study of virtual microscopy in Higher Education
Interactive Learning Environments, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 713-728Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMulti-chronometer dating of the Souter Head complex: Rapid exhumation terminates the Grampian Event of the Caledonian Orogeny
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 95-108Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691020000043
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Combining thermal imaging with photogrammetry of an active volcano using UAV: an example from Stromboli, Italy
Photogrammetric Record, vol. 34, no. 168, pp. 445-466Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phor.12301
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The Rattray Volcanics: Mid-Jurassic fissure volcanism in the UK Central North Sea
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 176, pp. 462-481Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvaluating petrophysical properties of volcano-sedimentary sequences: A case study in the Paraná-Etendeka Large Igneous Province
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 102, pp. 638-656Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.17632/7tv4pvpnks.2
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Miocene-Recent post-subduction alkaline magmatism along the Antarctic Peninsula II. Petrology
Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-Up. Geological Society of LondonChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersField evidence for the lateral emplacement of igneous dykes: Implications for 3D mechanical models and the plumbing beneath fissure eruptions
Volcanica, pp. 85-105Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLithostratigraphy and volcanology of the Serra Geral Group, Paraná-Etendeka Igneous Province in Southern Brazil: Towards a formal stratigraphical framework
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 355, pp. 98-114Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.05.008
Mineralogical and geochemical evidence for polybaric fractional crystallization of continental flood basalts and implications for identification of peridotite and pyroxenite source lithologies
Earth Science Reviews, vol. 176, pp. 51-67Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeochemical stratigraphy and correlation within Large Igneous Provinces: the final preserved stages of the Faroe Islands Basalt Group
Lithos, vol. 286-287, pp. 1-15Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRegional Magma Plumbing and emplacement mechanisms of the Faroe-Shetland Sill Complex: Implications for magma transport and petroleum systems within sedimentary basins
Basin Research, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 41-63Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe geology of offshore drilling through basalt sequences: Understanding operational complications to improve efficiency
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 77, pp. 1177-1192Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.08.010
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Frontier exploration and the North Atlantic Igneous Province: new insights from a 2.6 km offshore volcanic sequence in the NE Faroe–Shetland Basin
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 173, no. 2, pp. 320-336Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-069
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Controls of mantle potential temperature and lithospheric thickness on magmatism in the North Atlantic Igneous Province.
Journal of Petrology, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 417-436Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGondwana break-up related magmatism in the Falkland Islands
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 173, no. 1, pp. 108-126Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-027
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Evidence for microbial activity in British and Irish Ordovician pillow lavas
Geological Journal, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 497-508Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.2562
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The generation of continental flood basalts by decompression melting of internally heated mantle
Geology, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 311-314Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G36442.1
Rifting and Mafic Magmatism in the Hebridean Basins
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 172, no. 2, pp. 218-236Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2014-100
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Lava–Sediment Interaction and Drainage-System Development In A Large Igneous Province: Columbia River Flood Basalt Province, Washington State, U.S.A
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 84, no. 11, pp. 1041-1063Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2014.85
Carbon dioxide drawdown by Devonian lavas
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 1-8Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA fresh approach to ditch cutting analysis as an aid to exploration in areas affected by large igneous province (LIP) volcanism
Special Publication - Geological Society of London, vol. 397, pp. 193-207Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP397.2
Reconstruction of drainage evolution in a Large Igneous Province: Intra-basaltic sedimentation in the Columbia River Basalt Province, Washington State, USA
10th International Conference on Fluvial SedimentologyContributions to Conferences: AbstractsThe development of fluvial environments within volcanic terrains: the Miocene Columbia River Basalt Province (Washington State, USA) as a case study
10th International Conference on Fluvial SedimentologyContributions to Conferences: AbstractsLava-sediment interactions in an Old Red Sandstone basin, NE Scotland
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 170, no. 4, pp. 641-655Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2012-107
Miocene vegetation in the Columbia River Basalt Province, Washington State, USA
Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinctions: Causes and EffectsContributions to Conferences: AbstractsThe habitability of vesicles in martian basalt
Astronomy & Geophysics, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 1.17-1.21Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/ats035
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Geochemical stratigraphy and correlation within the Faroe Islands Basalt Group: Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Mantle Sources during Continental Rupture
Goldschmidt Conference, pp. 1762-1762Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsLarge-scale magmatic pulses drive plant ecosystem dynamics
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 169, no. 6, pp. 703-711Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2012-012
Heavy metal, sex and granites: Crustal differentiation and bioavailability in the mid-Proterozoic
Geology, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 751-754Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G33116.1
Evolving heavy mineral assemblages reveal changing exhumation and trench tectonics in the Mesozoic Chugach accretionary complex, south-central Alaska
Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 124, no. 5-6, pp. 989-1006Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B30594.1
Geochemical correlation in deltaic successions: a reality check
Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 117, no. 5/6, pp. 620-632Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/B25436.1
Mesozoic break-up of SW Gondwana: implications for regional hydrocarbon potential of the southern South Atlantic
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 20, no. 3-4, pp. 287-308Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0264-8172(03)00045-X
Polybaric evolution of phonolite, trachyte, and rhyolite volcanoes in eastern marie byrd land, antarctica: Controls on peralkalinity and silica saturation
International Geology Review, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 1055-1099Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2747/0020-6814.45.12.1055
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Polybaric evolution of phonolite, trachyte and rhyolite volcanoes in eastern Marie Byrd Land, Antartica: controls on peralkalinity and silica saturation
International Geology Review, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 1055-1099Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAuthigenic apatite as an indicator of heavy mineral dissolution during sandstone diagenesis
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 72, no. 1Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAuthigenic apatite in a fluvial sandstone sequence: eveidence for rare-earth element mobility during diagenesis and a tool for diagnetic correlation
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 72, pp. 59-67Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMineral chemical provenance of Neolithic pitchstone artefacts from Ballygalley, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 219-236Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.10011
Re-Os isotope systematics of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province; Multiple mantle sources in the proto-Iceland plume
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 66Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe provenance of Triassic continental sandstones from the Beryl Fields, northern North Sea: mineralogical, geochemical and sedimentological constraints.
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 18-29Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHigh resolution geochemical and petrographical correlation of deep marine Paleocene sandstones from the Foinaven Field, West of Shetland
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 123-129Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLarge 230Th-excesses in basalts produced by partial melting of spinel lherzolite
Chemical Geology, vol. 162, no. 2, pp. 127-136Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00127-8
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A modified Archie's law for two conducting phases
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 180, pp. 369-383Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExceptional REE-enrichment in apatite during the low pressure fractional crystallisation of alkali olivine basalt; an example from the British Tertiary Igneous Province
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth Sciences, vol. 90, pp. 273-285Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntegrated two-dimensional lithospheric conductivity modelling in the pyrenees using field-scale and laboratory measurements
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 178, pp. 59-72Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe occurrence of Zr-bearing amphiboles and their relationships with the pyroxenes and biotites in the teschenite and nepheline syenites of a differentiated dolerite boss, Islay, NW Scotland
Mineralogical Magazine, vol. 64, pp. 459-468Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntegrated whole-rock trace element geochemistry and heavy mineral chemistry studies: Aids to the correlation of continental red-bed reservoirs in the Beryl Field, UK North Sea
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 7-16Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo.4.1.7
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The mineral chemistry and petrology of Tertiary pitchstones from Scotland
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth Sciences, vol. 89, pp. 95-111Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProducts and processes in pliocene-recent, subaqueous to emergent volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula: Examples of englacial Surtseyan volcano construction
Bulletin of Volcanology, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 628-646Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004450050167
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A Younger Dryas icecap in the Equatorial Andes.
Quaternary Research, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 13-28Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe generation of small melt-fractions in truncated melt columns: Constraints from magmas erupted above slab windows and implications for MORB genesis
Mineralogical Magazine, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 173-189Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Tectonic controls on the geochemical composition of Cenozoic, mafic alkaline volcanic rocks from West Antarctica
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 187-202Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00286842
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Tectonic setting and geochemistry of Miocene alkalic basalts from the Jones Mountains, West Antarctica
Antarctic Science, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 85-92Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102094000118
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The relationship between alkaline magmatism, lithospheric extension and slab window formation along continental destructive plate margins
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 81, pp. 265-285Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Trace-element and isotopic characteristics of small-degree melts of the asthenosphere: Evidence from the alkalic basalts of the Antarctic Peninsula
Chemical Geology, vol. 109, no. 1-4, pp. 51-68Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541(93)90061-M
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Role of subduction-plate boundary forces during the initial stages of Gondwana break-up: Evidence from the proto-Pacific margin of Antarctica
Geological Society Special Publication, vol. 68, pp. 149-163Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1992.068.01.10
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Mobility of the high field strength, rare earth elements and yttrium during late diagenesis
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 149, no. 5, pp. 689-692Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.149.5.0689
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The differentiated dolerite boss, Cnoc Rhaonastil, Islay: a natural experiment in the low pressure differentiation of an alkali olivine- basalt magma
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 55-69Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg28010055
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