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A Possible Fossil in a Graphitic Marble in the Connemara Schist, Cornamona, Co. Galway, Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Bernard E. Leake
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University, Bristol, 8.

Abstract

A network texture made of graphite with calcite filling the holes is described from an area of staurolite-garnet grade of metamorphism. It is pointed out that this is the earliest texture preserved in the rock, and that it resembles a cellular structure and may therefore be of organic origin, possibly a primitive plant. At present, however, it is not certain that the structure is organic in origin.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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