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Amygdaloid Textures in the Lewisian Rocks of the Island of Tiree

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

I. G. L. Sinclair
I. G. L. Sinclair
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Department, Kingston 6, Jamaica.
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Abstract

Certain amygdaloid textural features have been observed in a diopside-potash felspar rock within the Lewisian of the Island of Tiree; so far as the writer is aware, such features have not previously been noted in Lewisian rocks.

Evidence as to the genesis of these textures is sparse but they appear to have attained their present nature after the principal metamorphic events which have affected the enclosing rocks.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 103 , Issue 4 , August 1966 , pp. 336 - 339
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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