Quantitative textural analysis of packings of elongate crystals

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 413-429

  Rudge, John F ^a,b   Holness, Marian B ^c   Smith, Graham C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Earth Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cumulates; Point patterns; Random packing; Spatial statistics; Textural analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASALT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CUMULATE; PETROLOGY; PLAGIOCLASE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURE;

HOLYOKE; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50849119411     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-008-0293-1     Document Type: Article

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