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Two olivines from south african melilite-basalts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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The separation and analysis of the olivine phenocrysts from the Spiegel river and Klaasvoogds melilite-basalts was undertaken in order to ascertain whether the olivines contain significant amounts of Ca2SiO4 in their constitution in view of the fact that the closely allied rock-types, alnöite (Bowen, 1922) and the basalt from Shannon Tier, Tasmania (Tilley, 1928), are known to contain monticellite, and that Taljaard (1936) has tentatively identified monticellite in one of the melilite-basalts from the Sutherland district, Cape Province.
The Spiegel river melilite-basalt from the Riversdale district of the Cape Province was first described by Corstorphine (1898). Petrographic descriptions of the rock have been given by Rogers and Schwarz (1898), Rogers and du Toit (1903), Rogers (1905), Wagner (1914), du Toit (1926), Taljaard (1936), and Holmes (1936).
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- Research Article
- Information
- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 204 , March 1949 , pp. 486 - 491
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1949