The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details
Loch Doon Pluton
| Computer Code: | DOON | Preferred Map Code: | DOON |
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| Status Code: | Full | ||
| Age range: | Pridoli Epoch (SO) — Early Devonian Epoch (DL) | ||
| Lithological Description: | Major zoned granitic pluton. Isotopic age 408.6 +/- 2.8 (RB-SR); 408 +/- 4 (K-Ar). | ||
| Definition of Lower Boundary: | Intrusive. | ||
| Definition of Upper Boundary: | Intrusive. | ||
| Thickness: | 'Hour-glass' shaped intrusion c. 19km x 11km with long axis orientated roughly N-S. | ||
| Geographical Limits: | Southern Uplands, Scotland. | ||
| Parent Unit: | South Of Scotland Granitic Suite (SSCGR) | ||
| Previous Name(s): | Loch Doon Plutonic Complex [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DOON]
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Loch Doon Complex [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DOON] (-4004) Loch Doon - Loch Dee Pluton [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DOON] (-4615) Loch Doon Granite [Obsolete Name and Code: Use DOON] (-4616) |
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| Alternative Name(s): | none recorded or not applicable | ||
| Stratotypes: | |||
| Type Area | Area south, west and southwest of Loch Doon, Ayrshire, Scotland. | ||
| Reference(s): | |||
| Tindle, A G. 1982. Petrogenesis of the Loch Doon granitic intrusion, Southern Uplands of Scotland. Open University PhD thesis (unpublished). | |||
| Teall, J J H. 1899. In Peach, B N and Horne, J. 1899. The Silurian rocks of Britain, Vol.1: Scotland. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. | |||
| Tindle, A G and Pearce, J A. 1981. Petrogenetic modelling of in-situ fractional crystallization in the zoned Loch Doon pluton, Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 78, p. 196 - 207. | |||
| Oertel, G. 1955. Der pluton von Loch Doon in Sudschottland. Geotekt. Forschung, Vol. 11, p. 1 - 83. | |||
| Gardiner, C I, and Reynolds, S H. 1932. The Loch Doon 'granite' area, Galloway. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 88, 1-33. | |||
| Brown, G C, Cassidy, J, Tindle, A G, and Hughes, D J. 1979. The Loch Doon granite: an example of granite petrogenesis in the British Caledonides. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 136, 745-753. | |||
| McIntyre, D B. 1947. The north-west part of the Loch Doon plutonic complex: a study in petrogenesis. University of Edinburgh PhD thesis (unpublished). | |||
| Rutledge, H. 1950. The petrology and structure of the southern part of the Loch Doon complex. University of Edinburgh PhD thesis (unpublished). | |||
| Ruddock, I. 1969. The geochemistry of the southern half of the Loch Dee-Loch Doon pluton, South-west Scotland. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne PhD thesis (unpublished). | |||
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: | |||
| S008 | |||