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Layered Xenoliths in a Dyke, Awatere Valley, New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. A. Challis
G. A. Challis
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge.
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Abstract

Large cognate xenoliths showing rhythmic banding in anorthosite and pyroxenite are described from a camptonite dyke. Analyses of the camptonite, a pleochroic titanaugite and a titaniferous brown, hornblende are given.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 100 , Issue 1 , February 1963 , pp. 11 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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