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Pyroxene relations in two Hawaiian hypersthene-bearing basalts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

I. D. Muir  and
J. V. P. Long
I. D. Muir
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge
J. V. P. Long
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge
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Summary

A preliminary account is given of an optical and electron-microprobe investigation into the pyroxene relations of Hawaiian hypersthene-bearing lavas. It is shown that the clinopyroxene jackets to the phenocryst hypersthenes consist of strongly zoned augite, not pigeonite as formerly believed; the compositional range of this pyroxene is approximately the same as that of the groundmass augite phase. Groundmass pyroxene relations are complex; in one case two distinct pyroxene phases, augite and pigeonite occur, in the other all compositions lying between augite and pigeonite are encountered.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 34 , Issue 268 , 1965 , pp. 358 - 369
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1965

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