The mineralogy and petrology of carbonatites: A tribute to John Gittins

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 737-740

  Mitchell, Roger H ^a   Chakhmouradian, Anton R ^b   Lentz, David R ^c  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

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EID: 56649089604     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.46.4.737     Document Type: Editorial

References (18)

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2. BROOKS, C.K., GITTINS, J., FAWCETT, J.J. & RUCKLIDGE, J.C. (1981): The Batbjerg complex, East Greenland: a unique ultra-potassic Caledonian intrusion. Can. J. Earth Sci. 18, 274-285.
3. 3 at 1 kilobar and its significance in carbonatite petrogenesis. Am. J. Sci. 275, 534-560.
4. CURRIE, K.L. & GITTINS, J. (1993): Preliminary report on peralkaline silica-undersaturated rocks in the Kipawa syenite gneiss complex, western Quebec. Geol. Surv. Can., Pap. 93-1E, 197-205.
5. CURTIS, L.W. & GiTTINS, J. (1979): Aluminous and titaniferous clinopyroxenes from regionally metamorphosed agpaitic rocks in central Labrador. J. Petrol. 20, 165-196.
6. GITTINS, J. (1961): Nephelinization in the Haliburton-Bancroft District, Ontario, Canada. J. Geol. 69, 291-308.
7. GITTINS, J. (1979): Problems inherent in the application of calcite-dolomite geothermometry to carbonatites. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 69, 1-4.
8. GITTINS, J., BROWN, M.G. & STURMAN, D. (1976): Agrellite, a new rock-forming mineral in regionally metamorphosed agpaitic alkaline rocks. Can. Mineral. 14, 120-126.
9. GITTINS, J., FAWCETT, J.J., BROOKS, C.K. & RUCKLIDGE, J.C. (1990): Intergrowths of nepheline - potassium feldspar and kalsilite - potassium feldspar: a re-examination of the "pseudo-leucite" problem. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 73, 119-126.
10. GITTINS, J. & HARMER, R.E. (1997): The origin of dolomitic carbonatites: field and experimental constraints. J. Afr. Earth Sci. 25, 5-28.
11. GITTINS, J. & HARMER, R.E. (2003): Myth and reality in the carbonatite - silicate rock "association". Per. Mineral. 72, 19-26.
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13. GITTINS, J. & TUTTLE, O.F. (1966): Carbonatites. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Interscience, New York, N.Y.
14. HARMER, R.E. & GITTINS, J. (1998): The case for primary mantle-derived carbonatite magma. J. Petrol. 39, 1895-1903.
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17. TILLEY, C.E. & GITTINS, J. (1961): Igneous Depheline-bearing rocks of the Haliburton-Bancroft province, Ontario, J. Petrol. 2, 38-48.
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