Textural and Chemical Relations Among Spinel-Sapphirine-Garnet-Orthopyroxene, Salt Hill Emery Mine, Cortlandt Complex, N.Y.
Very high temperature (>900 °C) contact metamorphism and metasomatism of aluminous schist xenoliths in the mafic to ultramafic Cortlandt Complex, New York, resulted in formation of bodies of unusual Fe- and Al-oxide-rich rock called emery. During contact heating, disequilibrium thermal decompo...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36988 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-81998-174019/ |