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A suggested igneous origin for the banded granular hornfelses within the hypersthene-gabbro of Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. M. Brown
G. M. Brown*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
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The hypersthene-gabbro of Centre 2, Ardnamurchan, is intruded largely amongst sedimentary rocks. Despite this fact the majority of the inclusions are, as described by Riehey and Thomas (1930), of granulitized basic and ultrabasic igneous rocks. Recently M. K. Wells (1951) studied this problem again, but was only able to find four occurrences in which the xenolith was undoubtedly of sedimentary origin. However, he considered in some detail a problematical group known as the banded granular hornfelses and concluded that, despite four possible modes of origin, the textural and compositional evidence favoured a development through the metasomatism of sediments.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 227 , December 1954 , pp. 529 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © 1954, The Mineralogical Society

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