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Crystallization of basaltic magma as recorded by variation of crystal-size in dikes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Helmut G. F. Winkler
Helmut G. F. Winkler*
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Department of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Göttingen
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It is a familiar fact that in dikes, lava-flows, and sills the grain-size of the individual minerals normally varies according to the distance from the contacts. At or near the margins of the igneous body the grainsize is usually very much less than in the centre, and this phenomenon has been attributed to differences in the cooling-velocities at these spots. On the basis of measurements carried out by Queneau (8) the opinion seems to have been formed that the crystal-size always shows a progressive increase from the contacts towards the centre. This is not so, however, for as Lane (6) has shown, the crystal-size may increase to a maximum at a certain distance from the margin, and thereafter decrease again towards the centre of the intrusion. Apart from these investigations, carried out by Queneau and Lane, the only additioual quantitative data oil crystal-size variation known to the writer concerns a series of measurements made on an olivine-diabase by B. H. Dollen, under the direction of H. L. Alling.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 205 , June 1949 , pp. 557 - 574
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1949

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