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A primary igneous texture from the Lizard Peridotite, Cornwall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. T. V. Rothstein
A. T. V. Rothstein
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Department of Chemistry and Geology, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
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Summary

Detailed studies by Flett and Green have shown the Lizard complex to be a deformed body of considerable complexity. One of the principal results of the deformation has been the recrystallization of the primary peridotite. New evidence is presented concerning the original features of this high temperature peridotite. It is concluded that in some of the primary rocks there is preserved the structure and texture of the crystallization of an interstitial pore liquid trapped within a primary framework of olivine crystals.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 108 , Issue 5 , September 1971 , pp. 393 - 398
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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