The Shap Granite, and the Associated Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks

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Having been struck with the absence of any detailed description of the metamorphism caused by the intrusion of a granite mass into a complex group of volcanic products, we devoted ourselves to an examination of the alteration produced by the well-known intrusion of Shap Pell in Westmorland; being led thereto by a knowledge that the volcanic rocks themselves presented a considerable diversity of characters, and that we should be to a certain extent able to contrast the effects produced on the volcanic rocks with those shown by fairly normal sedimentary rocks of various kinds. Although the intrusive mass has been so frequently noticed, and the literature on the subject is somewhat extensive, very few authors have touched in detail upon the composition of the granite and on the metamorphism of the surrounding rocks. Indeed, the following papers are all te which we shall have to refer with any frequency, and which we therefore, to save trouble, cite at the outset :— Prof. H. A. N icholson ,“On the Granite of Shap in Westmoreland.” Trans. Edin. Geol. See. vol. i. (1868) p. 133. J. C lifton W ard , “On the Granitic, Granitoid, and Associated Metamorphic Rocks of the Lake District.—Part II. On the Eskdale and Shap Granites, with their Associated Metamorphic Rocks.” Quart. Jouru. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxl. (1875) p. 590. Professors H arkness and N icholson , “On the Strata and their Fossil Contents between the Borrowdale Series of the North of England and the Coniston Flags.” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxiii. (1877) p. 461. J.

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