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Pyroxenes from the Dawros Peridotite and some comments on their nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. T. V. Rothstein
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The University, Glasgow, W. 2.

Abstract

The paper contains eight analyses of primary and recrystallized pyroxenes from the layered ultramafic peridotite at Dawros. The assemblages in which these pyroxenes occur are compared to those from other peridotites and some comments are made on the pyroxene sequence. Consideration is also given to the problems arising as the result of the metamorphism of the primary igneous accumulate at Dawros.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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