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III.—On a Hornblende-Picrite from the Zmutthal (Canton Valais)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Catherine A. Raisin
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While staying at Zermatt in the summer of 1894, I searched among the boulders from the Zmutt glacier for several types of rock, which, as suggested to me by Professor Bonney, were likely to occur. I am further indebted to him for kindly giving me his help and opinion on several questions while I was writing this note.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , May 1897 , pp. 202 - 205
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1897

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page 203 note 1 It is usually not dichroic, exhibits well-marked cleavage planes, and the high extinction angle of augite.

page 203 note 2 As described by Professor Bonney, “On the so-called Diorite of Little Knott (Cumberland), with further remarks on the Occurrence of Picrites in Wales”: Q.J.G.S. 1885, vol. xli, p. 520.Google Scholar

page 203 note 3 The enstatite has close parallel cleavages which almost seem to form a repeated twinning, but this (examined with a high power) is seen to be an effect of a large number of elongated vesicular-looking enclosures, which are probably negative crystals formed along gliding planes. Cf. Prof. Judd, Q.J.G.S. 1885, vol. xli, p. 354.Google Scholar

page 203 note 4 This may possibly indicate a local deficiency of lime in the magma, a thing not surprising, as peridotites are often ill-mixed rocks.

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page 204 note 5 In my specimen of the Penarfynydd picrite, which I collected in 1885, the olivine contains, sometimes at the edge, clusters of needle-shaped structures either parallel or radiating in a stellate form, the needles in both cases suggesting minute fissures starting from a centre. At places the parallel bundles seem to be connected with a fibrous chrysotile development

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