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The compositional range of magmatic Mn-garnets in the Galway Granite, Connemara, Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

M. P. Whitworth  and
M. Feely
M. P. Whitworth
Affiliation:
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution, Vincent House, 2, Woodland Road, Darlington, DL3 7PY
M. Feely
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, Galway, Ireland
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Keywords

Galway granitegarnetsmanganeseyttriumcompositional variation
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 58 , Issue 390 , March 1994 , pp. 163 - 168
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1994

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