Abstract
SummaryClay mineral analysis of shales in the early Liassic Lower Broadford Beds of the Hebrides reveals the presence of abundant quantities of montmorillonite whereas the Upper Broadford Beds contain illite, kaolinite and subordinate mixed layer minerals together with chlorite. Montmorillonite enrichment of the Lower Broadford Beds as a consequence of recent weathering contamination by doleritic sills can effectively be ruled out. It is argued that the montmorillonite may have been derived from the weathering of basic igneous rocks exposed in the sediment source area during Late Triassic times. By Upper Broadford Beds times, the igneous source was either eroded away or transgressed by the early Liassic sea.
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