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Differentiation in Basalt Lava, Island Magee, Co. Antrim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. I. Tomkeieff
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THE plateau-lavas of Antrim cover an area of approximately 1,550 square miles—the largest area of Tertiary lavas in the British Isles. Although from the earliest daysof geological science these lavas have attracted many observers, very little has been done in the way of petrological study and, curiously enough, the dominant olivine-basalt lava has never been analysed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 71 , Issue 11 , November 1934 , pp. 501 - 512
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1934

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