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Coexisting silimanite and mullite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. E. Cameron
W. E. Cameron
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Department of Mineralogy and Petrology Downing Place Cambridge CB2 3EW
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In three assemblages of widely differing paragenesis, sillirnanite and mullite have been found in apparently stable coexistence. This is interpreted as evidence for the presence of a miscibility gap between the two phases. A fourth occurrence, remini-scent of the early hydrothermal syntheses, is metastable.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 113 , Issue 6 , November 1976, pp. 497 - 514
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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