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On the Remains of Fossil Wood Enclosed in a Tertiary Lava on the Isle of Rum, Inner Hebrides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. I. Tomkeieff  and
K. B. Blackburn
S. I. Tomkeieff
Affiliation:
King's College, University of Durham, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
K. B. Blackburn
Affiliation:
King's College, University of Durham, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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In August, 1938, while participating in the expedition to Rum organized by the Botanical Department of King's College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, under the leadership of Professor J. W. Heslop Harrison, I was fortunate enough to discover a fragment of fossil wood enclosed in a trachybasalt lava. This is the first discovery of a fossil of any kind on this island and one of the few discoveries of fossil wood in the British Tertiary lavas.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , February 1942 , pp. 14 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1942

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