Aspects of the Petrology and Geochemistry of Greenstones: with special reference to SW England and Wales

Aspects of the Petrology and Geochemistry of Greenstones: with special reference to SW England and Wales

The use of texture, petrology and geochemistry of Neolithic greenstone hand axes, to determine provenance, is well established. However, as many UK greenstones are essentially meta-dolerites (mildly metamorphosed medium-grained basic rocks) it is often necessary to consider the type and degree of al...

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Main Author: P.A. Floyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2009-09-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
Subjects:
archaeology
Greenstone
meta-dolerite
petrological variation
geochemical fingerprinting
low-grade alteration
axe-sources
SW England
Wales
Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue26/floyd_index.html

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