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QUARTZ-FELDSPAR MICROGRAPHIC INTERGROWTH [1 record]

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Record 1 2003-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Mineralogy
CONT

Quartz-bearing gabbronorite is the most common rock type of the Lower Zone [of the Sudbury Igneous Complex], and is composed of plagioclase-orthopyroxene cumulates, cumulus or intercumulus clinopyroxene, and intercumulus quartz, quartz-feldspar micrographic intergrowth, biotite, and Fe-Ti oxides.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minéralogie
CONT

De la gabbronorite quartzifère est le type de roche le plus commun dans la Zone inférieure [du Complexe igné de Sudbury]; elle se compose d'orthopyroxène-plagioclase (phase cumulus), de clinopyroxène (phase cumulus ou intercumulus), de quartz, d'un enchevêtrement micrographique de quartz et de feldspath, de biotite et d'oxydes de Fe-Ti (phase intercumulus).

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