The Highland Border Complex is an assemblage of rocks of probable early Cambrian to late Ordovician age, found as fault-bounded blocks of variable lithology exposed immediately to the southeast of the Highland Boundary Fault at the edge of the Grampian Highlands , Scotland.
8-743: Rocks of the Highland Border Complex are exposed intermittently along the trace of the Highland Boundary Fault for about 250 km from Glen Sannox on the Isle of Arran in the southwest to Garron Point near Stonehaven in the northeast. The exposed width varies along the outcrop but is always less than 1,300 m. It has been suggested that the complex directly correlates with the Clew Bay Complex in Ireland, which
16-635: A small chapel. It is the burial site of Edwin Muir, who was murdered on Goatfell in 1889 by John Laurie. Sannox sits on the east coast of the Isle of Arran, with a stunning backdrop of scenery in the shape of Glen Sannox. To the north lies North Glen Sannox. The A841 road passes through to Lochranza , on a stretch of road known locally as the Boguille. Sannox is the location of the Corrie Golf Club,
24-568: Is possible to find an Iron Age fort and the remains of a village, abandoned in 1829 as part of the process of the Highland clearances . Most of the inhabitants of this village emigrated to Canada where they built a replica of the church that was constructed in Sannox in 1822. The replica church in Inverness, Quebec, is no longer there (since the 1950s) and only the cemetery remains. Remains of
32-561: Is probably of similar age and is also associated with a proposed continuation of the Highland Boundary Fault. At least four rock assemblages have been recognised within the Highland Border Complex: gritty sandstone with limestone and mudstone (probably lowermost Upper Ordovician ); metabasalt , chert and mudstone equivalents; limestone and serpentinite conglomerate (uppermost Lower Ordovician); serpentinite, metagabbro and hornblende - schist . Their relationship with
40-718: The Grampian Orogeny. Alternatively, the complex is viewed as a tectonically emplaced sequence that is unrelated to the Dalradian. Sannox Sannox ( Scottish Gaelic : Sannaig ) is a village on the Isle of Arran , Scotland . The village is within the parish of Kilbride. The name comes from the name the Vikings gave to the area, Sandvik , meaning the Sandy Bay. Within North Glen Sannox it
48-467: The houses and runrigs - a type of farming common in western Scotland at the time - are visible throughout North Glen Sannox. Mining was a source of employment in the area, when in 1840 a mine was opened in Glen Sannox. However operations only lasted around two decades. Operations ended when in 1862 the 11th Duke of Hamilton closed the mine, claiming that it spoiled the local area. However, the mine
56-573: The lower Cambrian Leny Limestone and associated black shales remains debated. Most of the sedimentary rocks of the Highland Border Complex have been interpreted as being in stratigraphic continuity with the Dalradian Supergroup, with the ophiolitic rocks (serpentinite, metagabbro, hornblende schist, metabasalt, chert and black slates, collectively known as the Highland Border Ophiolite ), emplaced on them during
64-497: Was reopened after the close of the First World War , and a railway and pier were built to transport the barytes that was mined there. The source of barytes ran out in 1938 and the mine closed. The railway and pier to which it ran were removed in the 1940s, though the remains of the latter can still be seen on Sannox beach. A small boat yard used to operate at the village jetty. The cemetery in Glen Sannox used to house
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