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An Alkali Facies of Granite at Granite-Dolomite Contacts in Skye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. E. Tilley
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Abstract

The development of an alkali pyroxene-bearing fades of granite at the contact of the Beinn an Dubhaich granite of Skye with Durness dolomites is associated with a skarn formation involving magmatic transfer of alumina. The significance of the processes at work in this and related examples is discussed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , April 1949 , pp. 81 - 93
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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