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Banded Pumice in a Chilean Ignimbrite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

John Edward Guest
John Edward Guest
Affiliation:
University of London Observatory, Mill Hill Park, London, N.W.7.
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Summary

Banded pumice from a late-Tertiary ignimbrite in northern Chile is descrived and its origin considered. Other phenomena within the ignimbrite, including a variation in mineralogy between the upper and lower units of the flow, are described.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 105 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 177 - 184
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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