Mechanism of emplacement and crystallisation history of the northern margin and centre of the Galway Granite, western Ireland

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Leake, Bernard Elgey ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batholith shape; Fractionation sequence; Granite emplacement; Porphyritic feldspar; Releasing bend fractures; Size of magma pulses; Stoping

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COUNTRY ROCK; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT; FRACTIONATION; GRANITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; THRUST; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846245985     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593306000010     Document Type: Article

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