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The frequency-distribution of igneous rocks. I. Frequency-distribution of the major oxides in analyses of igneous rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. Alferd Richardson  and
G. Sneesby
W. Alferd Richardson
Affiliation:
University College, Nottingham
G. Sneesby
Affiliation:
University College, Nottingham
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The quantitative distribution of igneous rocks has recently assumed a place of importance in petrogenic discussions. This is due largely to the influence of Daly, who made a survey of the areal distribution of rock types as shown by their outcrops on published maps, and reached the well-known conclusion that intrusions are overwhelmingly granitic in composition, and that extrusions arc largely basaltic. If further research should firmly establish this result, it will unquestionably be a fact of the first order of importance of which any general theory of petrogenesis must take cognizance.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 19 , Issue 97 , June 1922 , pp. 303 - 313
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1922

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page 312 note 1 The alumina curve was published in Min. Mag., 1921, vol. 19, p. 131, fig. 1.

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