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Cuspidine from dolomite contact skarns, Broadford, Skye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

C. E. Tilley
C. E. Tilley*
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge
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Cuspidine was first described by Scacchi (1876) in the ejected blocks of metamorphosed limestone at Vesuvius, but a detailed and systematic morphological description of well-terminated crystals was given first by vom Rath (1883) from material at Cozzolino in Resina, Vesuvius. The monoclinic character of the spear-shaped crystals was then established with a:b:c = 0·7243:1:1·9342, β = 89° 22′, and twins on (100) giving = 1° 16′. Scacchi (in Arzruni, 1877) had earlier indicated the possibility that cuspidine he had described as orthorhombic was monoclinic and twinned when he recognized a re-entrant angle of 178° 42′ on the cleavage truncating the acute ends of the crystals.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 197 , June 1947 , pp. 90 - 95
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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