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Comments on ‘Kaersutite from San Carlos, Arizona, with comments on the paragenesis of this mineral’ by Brian Mason

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Martin Prinz
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
C. E. Nehru
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210

Summary

Electron probe analyses have been made of eight kaersutites from San Carlos, Arizona, and one from Kakanui, New Zealand; also of olivine, clinopyroxene, ilmenite, and spinel from San Carlos. There is not as yet adequate evidence that the kaersutite is an upper mantle phase.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1969

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Footnotes

1

On leave from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

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