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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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SCOURIAN. Referring to the oldest complex of Lewisian gneiss, characterised by pyroxene (1951 Sutton & Watson in Quarterly Jnl. Geol. Soc. CVI. 241), dating from 2600 million years ago.
[From Scourie, Sutherland.]
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