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A Note on Greisening in the Bodmin Moor Granite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. S. Exley
C. S. Exley
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, Keele, Staffs.
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Abstract

Some differential weathering of tors on Bodmin Moor has been found to be due to narrow zones of greisen. These zones are not related to the joint system in the granite and appear to have arisen by the alteration of feldspars in the path of escaping late-magmatic fluids.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 98 , Issue 5 , October 1961 , pp. 427 - 430
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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