Origin of chemically zoned and unzoned cordierites from the South Mountain and Musquodoboit Batholiths, Nova Scotia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 389, Issue , 2004, Pages 99-110

  Erdmann, Saskia ^a   Clarke, D Barrie ^a   MacDonald, Michael A ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical zoning; Cordierite; Granite; Microstructures; Xenocrysts

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICATE MINERALS;

CATION EXCHANGES; CHEMICAL ZONING; COMPOSITIONAL ZONING; CORDIERITE; OSCILLATORY ZONING; PERITECTIC REACTION; RANDOM INCLUSIONS; XENOCRYSTS;

ZONING;

BATHOLITH; CORDIERITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEVONIAN; MAGMA CHAMBER; MICROSTRUCTURE; ZONING;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA; SOUTH MOUNTAIN;

CORDIERITES;

EID: 74949130537     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2389-2.99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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