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The metamorphic facies concept

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

R. St J. Lambert*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Oxford

Summary

Present-day facies schemes are reviewed in relation to their definitions and applicability: a simplification is proposed based on assemblages in basaltic rocks, with secondary facies defined subsequently on pelitic assemblages.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1965

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