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A contribution to the petrology of the Whin Sill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

S. I. Tomkeieff
S. I. Tomkeieff*
Affiliation:
Armstrong College, University of Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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The ‘Whin Sill’ of the north of England is a classic example of an igneous intrusive sheet. A detailed account of its general tectonic and petrographic features has been the subject of a recent; paper by A. Holmes and H. F. Harwood. The present author has made the attempt not so much to give a complete account of the petrology of the Whin Sill, as to describe certain peculiar developments within its mass, such as the coarse-grained bands, acid segregations, &e.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 22 , Issue 125 , June 1929 , pp. 100 - 120
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1929

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