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Banded Olivines in some Scottish Carboniferous Olivine-Basalts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. Hamilton
J. Hamilton
Affiliation:
10, Ross Crescent, Tranent, East Lothian.
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Abstract

Large, individual olivine crystals exhibiting a banded structure are described from olivine-basalts from a number of localities in the Carboniferous lavas of the Midland Valley. This structure is of deformational nature and provides what seems to be a sound criterion for distinguishing between phenocrystic and xenocrystic olivine in olivine-basalts.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , April 1957 , pp. 135 - 139
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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