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On a Black Sand from South-East Iceland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Alan Stuart
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So far as the writer is aware, no sodic or “contaminated” rocks have been recorded from Iceland, and it was thought that an examination of some black sand collected by Dr. L. Hawkes, and kindly supplied by him, might reveal the presence of minerals from such rocks.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 64 , Issue 12 , December 1927, pp. 540 - 545
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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page 544 note 2 The greatest source of error. But the figures given express the composition more truly than is possible with the usual method of denoting frequencies by numbers from 1 to 10.