The Coire Dhuinnid fault zone contains emerald green chromian illite-ankerite-quartz rocks that are similar in appearance to the fuchsite(or mariposite)-carbonate-quartz parageneses that are commonplace in Archaean greenstone belts but which are rather rare in Phanerozoic rocks. The chromian illite contains 2.3 wt.% Cr20> low K20 (7.1 7.6 wt.%) and high H20+ (5.7 wt.%), and it is a 1M polytype with ~<10% of an illite/smectite interstratification indicative of a formation temperature of c. 175-200~ The host rocks contain high concentrations of Ni and Cr, and show low concentrations of Ti, Nb, Y and Zr, suggesting a tbrmer primitive mafic protolith (boninitic magma?); they are considered to be retrograde remnants of Lewisian rocks. The latter, and the associated rocks of the Moine Series, have been affected by CO2 metasomatism that was accompanied by the addition of Ca(+Sr), Fe and Mg, and by the removal of Na from, and the addition of H20 to the Moine metasediments. Radiogenic isotope studies of mineral separates and whole rock from sample no. 43 yielded ages of 483_+2 Ma (Ar-Ar dating on Cr illite), 413_+ 12 Ma (K-Ar dating on Cr illite), and 322 + 9 Ma (Rb-Sr dating on minerals and whole rock); the significance of this discrepant pattern is discussed.
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