Complex zoning between super-calcic pigeonite and augite from the Graveyard Point sill, Oregon: A record of the interplay between bulk and interstitial liquid fractionation

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 170-183

  Markl, Gregor ^a   White, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; MINERAL ZONING; SILL; THOLEIITE;

GRAVEYARD POINT; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033387142     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050589     Document Type: Article

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