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Authigenic Minerals in Carboniferous Sediments from Central Vestspitsbergen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Philip F. Hutchins
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.

Abstract

Postdepositional low-temperature mineralogical changes in Carboniferous sedimentary rocks from Vestspitsbergen are described. These include the crystallization of apatite, quartz, and feldspar, and the replacement of feldspar and quartz by calcite and dolomite. Minerals of the chalcedonite–lutecime–quartzine group also occur.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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