A crystal size-distribution study of the Kiglapait layered mafic intrusion, Labrador, Canada: Evidence for textural coarsening

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 314-330

  Higgins, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; OLIVINE; PLAGIOCLASE; SOLIDIFICATION; TEXTURE;

CANADA; KIGLAPAIT; LABRADOR;

EID: 0036910814     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0399-9     Document Type: Article

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