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The clinopyroxenes of the Skaergaard intrusion, eastern Greenland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

I. D. Muir
I. D. Muir*
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Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge
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During the past twenty years considerable attention has been given to the compositions of the pyroxenes from basic igneous rocks. Hess (1941) reviewed the courses of crystallization of pyroxenes from mafic magmas and drew a trend line for the lime-rich clinopyroxenes. The present investigation was undertaken primarily to determine more closely the trend in the ferroaugite region, for here Hess's trend was based on the analyses of two pyroxenes from the Skaergaard intrusion and both of these are now known to be somewhat unusual types. The Skaergaard intrusion which is a strongly fractionated gabbroic complex is Particularly suitable for this study of the ferroaugites. Fifteen new analyses have been made for this investigation and twenty-three analyses of the pyroxenes from this intrusion are now available. Using nineteen of these, new trend lines have been drawn (fig. 1) for the Skaergaard clinopyroxenes.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 214 , September 1951 , pp. 690 - 714
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1951

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