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Secondary Gypsum in Middle Carboniferous Rocks of Spitsbergen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. W. Holliday
D. W. Holliday
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Institute of Geological Sciences, Ring Road, Halton, Leeds, 15.
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Abstract

Porphyroblastic and alabastrine secondary gypsum from the Middle Carboniferous sequence of Central Vestspitsbergen is described. Evidence is presented to show that the earliest alabastrine gypsum formed from anhydrite by rapid, near-surface, volume for volume hydration, contrary to some previous explanations for similar secondary gypsum elsewhere.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 104 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 171 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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