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The optical properties and composition of the acmitic pyroxenes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

P. A. Sabine
P. A. Sabine*
Affiliation:
Geological Survey and Museum, London, 1
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The occurrence of acmitic pyroxenes in the post-Cambrian intrusions of the north-west of Scotland was first noted by Teall (Home and Teall, 1892) who recorded aegirine in two dikes discovered by Gunn in the Coigach district of Ross-shire, and aegirine-augite in the borolanite of the Cnoc-na-Srbine mass. Since then, acmitic pyroxenes have been recorded by Teall (1900) from the Assynt felsites, Shand (1910) from dikes of the border zone of Cnoc-na-Srbine, and Phemister (1926) from the dikes and plutonic rocks of the Loch Ailsh laccolite.

Having undertaken a comprehensive examination, in the field and in the laboratory, of the post-Cambrian sills and dikes of the Assynt district, the writer determined some of the optical constants of the acmitic pyroxenes of these intrusions. Arising from this work the considerable data now available on the acmitic pyroxenes has been reviewed. A chemical analysis has also been carried out, and it is hoped that the information assembled and re-interpreted here may be of some general interest.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 209 , June 1950 , pp. 113 - 125
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1950

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