"Hot and sticky" and "cold and damp" pyroclastic eruptions, and their relationship with topography: valley- and lake-filling ignimbrites, Ardnamurchan, NW Scotland

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Palaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea

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The rattray volcanics:Mid-jurassic fissure volcanism in the UK Central North Sea

PGS are thanked for the generous donation of the MegaSurveyPlus and MegaSurvey 3D seismic data sets. The British Geological Survey are thanked for the generous donation of Digital Magnetic Anomaly data over the Central North Sea. Nexen are thanked for the use of the AM852D1009 2D seismic data. Well and 2D seismic data were downloaded from the UK Oil & Gas Common Data Access (CDA) portal. Offshore gravity and other magnetic anomaly data were accessed on the BGS Offshore GeoIndex. GB onshore aeromagnetic data was downloaded from the BGS Open Geoscience website. Interpretation was carried out using IHS Kingdom, Foster Findlay Associates’ (FFA) GeoTeric and Schlumberger Techlog software. AQ thanks Jonathon Hardman for his advice on spectral decomposition and Niall Mark and Jessica Pugsley for their helpful discussions. We would like to acknowledge John Dixon who pioneered the work on the Triple Junction and who was a key mentor to both NS and JRU. Craig Magee and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their suggestions which substantially improved this manuscript. Funding This work is part of AQ’s PhD research which is funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. AQ would like to thank the Carnegie Trust for their continued support.Peer reviewedPostprin