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The Contaminated Granite of Bibette Head, Alderney

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. R. Nockolds
S. R. Nockolds
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge.
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THE Bibette Head granite outcrops along the western portion of the north coast of Alderney. The outcrop, as seen at present, is about five-eighths of a mile long in an E.-W. direction and about one quarter of a mile wide. The greater part of the intrusion must, however, be under the sea. The rocks into which this granite is intruded are a rather variable series of diorites, and the contact is a sharp one, although there is a certain amount of veining by the granite. Over a large part of the outcrop the granite is much decomposed and reddened. This would appear to be due largely to the action of iron-bearing solutions, derived from the magma, coming up along fissures which are parallel to the main joint planes. These run in a direction 17° west of north. The same series of solutions were probably responsible also for the epidotization of the granite which is a marked feature in various parts. Recent blasting operations at Bibette Head have exposed a large quantity of fresh granite, and although specimens were collected from all over the outcrop the bulk of the material with which the present investigation is concerned came from there.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 69 , Issue 10 , October 1932 , pp. 434 - 452
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1932

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