Compositional cyclicity in a pyroxenitic layer from the Main Zone of the Western Bushveld Complex: Evidence for repeated magma influx

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 149-161

  Mitchell, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bushveld Complex; Compositional cyclicity; Magma influx; Main Zone; Pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

BUSHVELD COMPLEX; COMPOSITIONAL CYCLICITY; LAYERING; MAGMA INFLUX; PYROXENITE;

SOUTH AFRICA, TRANSVAAL;

EID: 0029768374     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1996.060.398.10     Document Type: Article

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