Essays about: "Inner Hebrides"

Found 2 essays containing the words Inner Hebrides.

  1. 1. The Roots of a Magma Chamber, the Central Intrusion, Rum, NW-Scotland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Tobias Mattsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Rum; Layered Ultrabasic Intrusion; Long Loch Fault; 3D modelling; Rum; Minerallagrad magmakammare; Long Loch Förskastningen; 3D modellering;

    Abstract : The island of Rum in the Inner Hebrides, NW-Scotland, hosts a central volcanic complex that is part of the British-Irish Palaeogene Igneous Province situated in NE- Ireland and NW- Scotland. On Rum, rocks from several stages of Palaeogene magmatic activity have been exposed by millions of years of erosion. READ MORE

  3. 2. Palynostratigraphy and palaeoclimatic analysis of Lower-Middle Jurassic (Pliensbachian - Bathonian) of the Inner Hebrides, NW Scotland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Sissa Stefanowicz; [2008]
    Keywords : palynologi; jura; miospor; paleoklimat; Inre Hebriderna; Skottland; palynology; Jurassic; miospore; palaeoclimate; Inner Hebrides; Scotland; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : A palynostratigraphic investigation of partly ammonite dated, Pliensbachian to Bathonian (Early – Middle Jurassic) strata on the Isles of Skye and Raasay, Inner Hebrides in Northwest Scotland, has recovered a diverse but not always well preserved miospore flora and a less diverse dinoflagellate cysts flora. The studied interval has been subdivided into five biozones, A - E, based on the first occurrence, common occurrence, first common occurrence, and relative abundance of pollen and spore key taxa. READ MORE