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The Quihita-Cunene Layered Gabbroic Intrusion of South-west Angola

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. Stone  and
G. M. Brown
P. Stone
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
G. M. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
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Abstract

The detailed examination of rocks recently collected from a traverse and from isolated points within this intrusion has led to the conclusion that it is a large, layered intrusion showing rhythmic and cryptic variation, and comparable in many respects with the Great Dyke of Southern Rhodesia.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 95 , Issue 3 , June 1958 , pp. 195 - 206
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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