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Some Puzzling Features of Alpine and West Indian Metamorphic Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. T. Trechmann
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It should by now be fairly well realized that the West Indian islands are not a subsiding mountain range, but represent rather an Alpine or Pyrenean area in process of emerging from the sea. In the West Indies we witness something of the condition of metamorphism of the rocks as they came up. Comparison of the metasomatism of the formations in the two widely separated areas of the Alps and Antilles may provide some evidence as to how the processes operated and what sort of forces raised them up.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 85 , Issue 5 , October 1948 , pp. 297 - 304
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1948

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