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Journals, Research etc.

By Journals, of course we are referring to the scholarly, peer-reviewed publications which represent the cutting edge of research by academics and others. One of the aims of this site is to build up a complete list of all such published work so that anyone looking for a specific article can easily find it. Many of the journals can be viewed online, (addresses given below) although this can be a costly business. If you have access to a University library, it should be possible to find the main publications of this type, such as the Quarterly Journal of the Geol Soc of London, Journal of Petrology, Scottish Journal of Geology and so on.

Note: as well as Mull and Iona, many of the publications referred to here concern other parts of the British Tertiary Igneous Province. Many of the papers and books which contain good information about Mull are often of a more general nature. An attempt is made to make the list as inclusive as possible, Duplicates may also exist - if you find any let me know!

Below, there are links to an extensive database of all the journals, books and other printed resources which cover the British Tertiary Igneous Province as well as Mull and Iona specifically. If you would like anything added to this list, please let me know. The database was set up using the excellent CGI script "DBMan" from Gossamer Threads Inc. Try the links below:

& Mull Geological Publications Database Default Start Page (This link takes you straight to the start page - you can then customise your own search from there)

& Full List of all Entries, sorted by Date (Fairly obvious - the entire database, with entries listed in date order)

& List of Entries with Mull in the Title, sorted by Date (A more specific search)

& List of Entries with Iona in the Title, sorted by Date (A specific search for Iona references)

Internet / Web: There are several research articles which are available to view online - these are listed below. Note these are not in any particular order - if the list grows too long and becomes unwieldy, I will put it on a separate page with better formatting.

Aberdeen University AUMING Group Very interesting collection of material here.
Geochemical Evolution of the Tertiary Mull Volcano Journal of Petrology paper, available online.
The Great Plume Debate - Mull 2005 Very interesting "hot" topic this one. Whole site is well worth a read, not just the Mull field trip.
Xenoliths and the mantle Another interesting Journal of Petrology paper.
Xenoliths in a Gribun Dyke More work on xenoliths, paper from the Journal of the Geol Soc of London

Journal Web Sites: For many of these, only the Abstract is available free. Articles can be downloaded on a pay-per-article basis for most of the Journals.

Note: University students and staff should be able to access most of the main Journals through their University or Departmental libraries. Also, members of academic institutions can log in to the JSTOR site to read certain journals online. www.jstor.org "The Scholarly Journal Archive" (NB: For local users, if you are a student at Argyll College, this is available to you through your log-in.)

Also, SCRAN is a very useful resource. Members of academic institutions can generally access it for free. Individual access accounts are inexpensive and well worth it! www.scran.ac.uk (Scottish Cultural Resources Archive Network) SCRAN is basically an online archive of thousands of pictures and video clips. Simply doing a search for a topic such as "gabbro" or "pegmatite" or "Iona Marble" will throw up lots of fascinating pictures. Addictive!

Incidentally, here's a neat quotation about scientific papers:
"There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper" Francis Crick- The Astonishing Hypothesis 1994.

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