The following is my B.Sc. Honours thesis.

A Geological Study of a part of South East Harris, Western Isles.

by Ian O. Morrison B.Sc(Hons.), University of Edinburgh 1972-3

Fig 1: Location of the area studied		The author on the summit of Roneval, July 1972

PART I: INTRODUCTION

PART II: ROCK UNITS

1. RODEL METASEDIMENTS

2. FINSBAY HORNBLENDIC GNEISSES AND QUARTZITES

3. RODEL AMPHIBOLITES

4. IGNEOUS COMPLEX

5. CENTRAL AMPHIBOLITES

6. GRANITE PEGMATITES & MIGMATITES

7. DOLERITIC DYKES

PART III: STRUCTURE

PART IV: GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE AREA

PART V: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

PART VI: POSSIBILITIES FOR FUTURE WORK IN THIS AREA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The abstract of a much more recent study of the relationship of the South Harris rocks to those of the Lewisian elsewhere can be found here. The full bibliographical reference is Friend, C.R.L., Kinny, P.D., in press. A reappraisal of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex: geochronological evidence for its tectonic assembly from disparate terranes in the Proterozoic Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

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