Distinct sulfur saturation histories within the Palaeogene Magilligan Sill, Northern Ireland: implications for Ni – Cu – platinum group element mineralisation in the North Atlantic Igneous Province

• Main Authors: Lindsay, Jordan James, Hughes, Hannah S. R., Smyth, Dermot, McDonald, Iain, Boyce, Adrian J., Andersen, Jens C. Ø.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2019
• Subjects: Talnakh; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/95549; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2018-0141

The ∼60 m thick Magilligan Sill is part of the British Palaeogene Igneous Province in the North Atlantic. The sill comprises layers of dolerite and olivine gabbro, and it intrudes a thick sequence of Mesozoic mudstones and marls, which are locally baked at the sill margins. Since 2014, the sill has...