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VII.—A Contribution to the Petrology of North-Western Angola

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Olivine Ulrichite. — Megascopically this rock differs from the foregoing nepheline monchiquite in having a well-marked porphyritie structure, the phenocrysts including orthoclase and nepheline in crystals having a maximum dimension of nearly a centimetre. Under the microscope the minerals present are :—

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1915

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page 366 note 1 The terms felsic and mafic have been proposed by Cross, Iddings, Pirsson, and Washington (Journ. Geol., xx, p. 560, 1912) as names for two main groups of rock-forming minerals, the one including quartz, felspars, and felspathoids; the other, pyroxenes, amphiboles, micas, olivine, iron-ores, etc. Variation in the relative proportions of these two groups constitutes the important mode of variation in igneous rocks which gives rise to leucocratic, mesocratic, and melanocratic types. A quantitative expression may be given to this variation by attaching the prefixes per- and do- to the terms felsic and mafic, with a similar connotation in respect to the mode as the analogous terms persalic, dosalic, etc., have in respect to the norm of the American Quantitative Classification.

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