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Rhodonite from Meldon, Okehampton, Devonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. R. Dearman*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Summary

There are two outcrops of rhodonite rock at the same stratigraphical horizon in Lower Carboniferous rocks in the Railway Quarry at Meldon. One of these is zoned outwards from rhodonite, through calc-silicate hornfels to quartzite. Well-formed crystals occur in drusy massive rhodonite; examples have been measured and drawn.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1966

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