Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-7drxs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-20T01:30:58.345Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Basic hornfels at a gabbro contact near Carlingford, Eire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. T. Harry
W. T. Harry
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, Dundee
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Thermal metamorphism of Silurian sediments at a gabbro contact took place under pyroxene-hornfels facies conditions. The most common hornfels is essentially composed of pyroxene and labradorite; its chemical composition compares with that of average gabbro. The hornfels is believed to have been metasomatically altered, probably basified, during metamorphism.

Type
Articles
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 89 , Issue 6 , December 1952 , pp. 411 - 416
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Clarke, F. W., 1924. The Data of Geochemistry. U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull., 770.Google Scholar
Grout, F. F., 1933. Contact metamorphism of the slates of Minnesota by granite and gabbro magmas. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., xliv, 989–1040.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Niggli, P., 1950. Some hornfelses from Saxony and the problem of metamorphic facies. Amer. Min., xxxv, 867–876.Google Scholar
Pettijohn, F. J., 1949. Sedimentary Rocks. New York.Google Scholar
Richey, J. E., 1932. Tertiary Ring Structures in Britain. Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, xix, 42–140.Google Scholar
Sadashivaiah, M. S., 1950. Olivine-bearing and other Basic Hornfelses around the Insch Igneous Mass, Aberdeenshire. Geol. Mag., lxxxvii, 121–130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Traill, W. A., 1878. Explanation of part of one-inch sheets 60 and 71. Mem. Geol. Surv. Ireland.Google Scholar