Magma pathways in sill-complexes

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Authors

Craig Magee , Simon Martin, William McCarthy, John MacDonald

Abstract

The Loch Scridain Sill-complex on the Isle of Mull affords an opportunity to examine how magma moves through and builds sill-complexes (Holness & Humphreys 2003). For example, field and petrological evidence indicates the Tràigh Bhàn na Sgùrra Sill is segmented and comprised several thick channels, separated by thin sill portions, that facilitated longer-lived magma flow (Holness & Humphreys 2003; Stephens et al. 2017). We integrate structural field analysis and rock magnetic techniques in an attempt to identify and characterise magma flow pathways in the LSSC, with a view to expanding the study to understand how the entire sill-complex was constructed.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/X57C8D

Subjects

Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Keywords

Sill, Magma, Magnetic, Flow

Dates

Published: 2021-03-09 13:27

Last Updated: 2021-03-09 13:27

License

CC BY Attribution 4.0 International

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Conflict of interest statement:
None

Data Availability (Reason not available):
All data used in this report are published and freely available at https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Loch_Scridain_Sill-Complex_data_-_Henry_Emeleus_Award_2019/14184860.