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Modal Variation and the Form of the Beinn an Dubhaich Granite, Skye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. H. Timothy Whitten
E. H. Timothy Whitten
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Regional variations in modal analyses of the Chandos Lake pluton (Ontario) and the Beinn an Dubhaich granite are compared. Trend surface analysis maps for the latter area show a southwest “grain” parallel to the axis about which King (1960) suggested the sheet of granite is folded. The modal data thus appear to confirm King's hypothesis, and to indicate a more mafic base and increase in quartz content upwards through the sheet. The value to petrogenesis of quantitative variation studies of rock masses is briefly discussed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 98 , Issue 6 , December 1961 , pp. 467 - 472
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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