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Pumpellyite in Snowdonian soils and rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

D. A. Jenkins  and
D. F. Ball
D. A. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Dept. of Biochemistry and Soil Science, University College of North Wales, Bangor
D. F. Ball
Affiliation:
The Nature Conservancy, Penrhos Road, Bangor
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Summary

Detrital grains, noted during the mineralogical examination of certain Snowdonian soils, have been identified as varieties of the mineral pumpellyite : the source of one variety has been located in dolerites exposed in the area, and the identity of this variety confirmed by X-ray analysis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 33 , Issue 267 , December 1964 , pp. 1093 - 1096
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1964

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