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The Mourne Mountains Granites—A Further Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. E. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University, Manchester.

Abstract

Chemical analyses and petrographic data are given of the eastern granites of the Mourne Mountains. It is shown that the main bulk of the granite is a uniform highly siliceous biotite-bearing type and that the intrusion of this was preceded by a smaller amount of less siliceous and more variable hornblende-bearing granite. The ferromagnesian minerals have a high iron to magnesium ratio.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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