Layered Intrusions

About this book

This work summarizes important aspects relating to layered intrusions. Each chapter is a complete review of a theme of specific geological intrusion. The first part of the book covers the general principles and processes which apply to all intrusions. Those chapters on individual intrusions concentrate on factual information. A detailed full-colour geological map of the Skaergaard intrusion is also included.

Contents

Mechanisms of formation of igneous layering, H.R. Naslund and A.R. McBirney; fluid dynamic processes in basaltic magma chambers, I.H. Campbell; texture development in cumulate rocks, R.H. Hunter; a review of mineralization in the Bushveld complex and some other layered mafic intrusions, C.A. Lee; the Skaergaard intrusion, A.R. McBirney; the Bushveld complex, H.V. Eales and R.G. Cawthorn; the Bjerkreim-Sokndal layered intrusion, southwest Norway, J.R. Wilson et al; layered intrusions of the Duluth complex, Minnesota, USA, J.D. Miller, Jr and E.M. Ripley; the Fongen-Hyllingen layered intrusive complex, Norway, J.R. Wilson and H.S. Sorenson; layered alkaline igneous rocks of the Gardar province, Greenland, B.G.J. Upton et al; the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, A.H. Wilson; the Rum layered suite, C.H. Emelus et al; the Stillwater complex, I.S. McCallum; the Windimurra comple, Western Australia, C.I. Mathison and A.L. AHMAT.

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