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Note on a Riebeckite-Bearing Rock from the Shetlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. Coles Phillips
F. Coles Phillips
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Preston Read Research Student in the University of Cambridge.
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Extract

The purpose of this note is to place on record the occurrence of the soda-bearing amphibole, riebeckite, in a particular type of dyke-rock in the Shetland Islands. To explain its field-relations a brief sketch of the general geology of the group is necessary.

Type
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Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , February 1926 , pp. 72 - 77
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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