The palaeogene eskdalemuir dyke, scotland: Long-distance lateral transport of rhyolitic magma in a mixed-magma intrusion

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-300

  Macdonald, R ^a,b   Baginski B ^a   Upton, B G J ^c   Dzierzanowski, P ^a   Marshall Roberts, W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite dyke; Lateral propagation of rhyolitic magma; Magma mixing

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ANDESITE; BASALTIC MAGMA; COMPOSITE DYKE; COMPOSITIONAL RANGE; DYKE SWARMS; LATERAL PROPAGATION; LATERAL PROPAGATION OF RHYOLITIC MAGMA; LATERAL TRANSPORT; LINEAR VARIATION; MAGMA INTRUSION; MAGMA MIXING; MATRIX CRYSTALS; MGO CONTENT; RHYOLITIC MAGMA; SCOTLAND; SILICIC MAGMAS;

CRYSTALS; FELDSPAR; GRANITE; LANDFORMS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BASALT;

ANDESITE; DIKE SWARM; EMPLACEMENT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MAGMA; PALEOGENE; PHENOCRYST; PLAGIOCLASE; RHYOLITE; THOLEIITIC BASALT;

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY; ESKDALEMUIR; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349144080     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2009.073.2.285     Document Type: Article

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