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Metamorphic Differentiation of Talc-Magnesite-Chlorite Rocks in Shetland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. S. Amin
M. S. Amin
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Imperial College, London, S.W. 7.
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Abstract

Practically monomineralic masses of talc, of magnesite, and of chlorite are formed in talc-magnesite-chlorite-rocks as a result of localized shearing and associated hydrothermal activity within deformation-belts.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , April 1952 , pp. 97 - 105
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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