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On the poikilitic nature of Jabal Al Hasawinah eudialyte

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Khaled M. Oun*
Affiliation:
University of Al Fatah, Department of Geology, P.O. Box 13258, Tripoli, Libya

Abstract

Poikilitic eudialyte outcrops in a strongly peralkaline phonolithic cumulo-dome in Jabal Al Hasawinah, Libya. Textural relationships reveal that the eudialyte has formed at a very late stage of the rock petrogenesis. Electron microprobe analyses confirm its volatile (hydrous) nature and low REE content.

Type
Mineralogy
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1991

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