Textures formed during emplacement and cooling of a Palaeoproterozoic, small-volume rhyolitic sill

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 341-362

  Orth, Karin ^a   McPhie, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdale; Crystallisation; Koongie Park Formation; Rhyolite; Sill; Spherulite; Textural zonation

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; FELDSPAR; GLASS TRANSITION; NUCLEATION; SEDIMENTS; TEXTURES; VOLCANOES;

BASAL CONTACT ZONES; RHYOLITIC SILLS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPLACEMENT; PROTEROZOIC; RHYOLITE; SILL; SPHERULITE; TEXTURE;

AUSTRALIA; ONEDIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0344945456     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00200-2     Document Type: Article

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