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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Many Jedburgh-type olivine-basalts of Carboniferous age in Scotland are characterized by a sub-ophitic texture in their groundmass and a flow structure of their lathy felspar phenoerysts. These characteristics have been frequently reported in the writings of Geikie, Flett, Bailey, Tyrrell, MacGregor, and others and are recognized as important textural features. In the main, however, they have been described as independent features and have been regarded as unrelated phenomena. Tyrrell (1909) alone has remarked on parallel felspars enclosed in plates of augite, and since his description appeared at an early date and has been available to subsequent workers, the lack of further examples indicates either that his discovery has been overlooked or that the texture is very rare.
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