Petrogenesis of the Spruce Pine pegmatites, North Carolina

Pegmatites in the Spruce Pine district, North Carolina, are an example of muscovite class pegmatites that were derived from differentiation of a magma. There are eight granodiorite plutons in the Spruce Pine area ranging in size from 1 to 20 square kilometers that contain and are surrounded by hundr...

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Main Author: Wood, Patricia Ann
Other Authors: Geology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44339
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222008-063320/