Skye Archives - Edinburgh Geological Society https://edinburghgeolsoc.org/tag/skye/ Making Geology Accessible to All Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:28:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Evidence of a large explosive silicic eruption on Skye https://edinburghgeolsoc.org/evidence-large-explosive-silicic-eruption-skye/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:28:45 +0000 http://edinburghgeolsoc-org.stackstaging.com/?p=4366 An article recently published in Nature Communications has suggested a connection between the Sgúrr of Eigg and a distant rocky outcrop Òigh-sgeir, with a major volcanic eruption on the island of Skye and a significant climate event 55 million years ago, the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Valentine R. Troll et al compared mineralogy and isotope […]

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