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Composition of Pelites from Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Bernard E. Leake
Bernard E. Leake
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Geology Department, The University, Bristol, 8.
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Abstract

Seventeen Connemara pelites have been chemically and modally analysed and a garnet, a staurolite, and a biotite from them chemically analysed. The results show that these pelites are rather poor in silica and rich in alumina and total iron. It is believed that this was an original feature of the composition.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 95 , Issue 4 , August 1958 , pp. 281 - 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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