Complex relationships among coexisting pyroxenes: The Palaeogene Eskdalemuir dyke, Scotland

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 929-942

  Baginski B ^a   Dzierzanowski, P ^a   MacDonald, R ^a,b   Upton, B G J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite dyke; Disequilibrium crystallization; Pyroxenes; Supercooling

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC MAGMA; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; COMPOSITE DYKE; DISEQUILIBRIUM CRYSTALLIZATION; MATRIX; MELT COMPOSITIONS; ORTHOPYROXENE; RHYOLITIC; RHYOLITIC MAGMA; SCOTLAND;

CRYSTALLIZATION; SUPERCOOLING; ZONING;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIKE; DISEQUILIBRIUM; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; PALEOGENE; PYROXENE; RHYOLITE; SUPERCOOLING;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 70349110515     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: 14718022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2009.073.6.929     Document Type: Article

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