Widespread secondary Ca garnet and other Ca silicates in the Galway Granite and its satellite plutons caused by fluid movements, western Ireland

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 62A, Issue PART 3, 1998, Pages 381-386

  Leake, Bernard E ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andradite; Epidote; Galway; Grossular; Hornblende; Hydrogrossular; Ireland; Prehnite

Indexed keywords

ANDRADITE; EPIDOTE; GARNET; GROSSULAR; HYDROGROSSULAR;

IRELAND;

EID: 0031720143     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/002646198547648     Document Type: Article

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