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dc.contributor.advisor | Shaw, D. M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gittins, John | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-30T17:28:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-30T17:28:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1956 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17836 | - |
dc.description.abstract | A petrographic study has been made of the contact relations between metagabbro and nepheline gneiss underlain by marble, in Monmouth township, Haliburton County, Ontario. A bad of hornblende nepheline-garnet gneiss about 80 feetwide trending north-south is underlain at a shear contact by marble. Round inclusion up to 18 inches across of red pyroxene with some spinel and rimmed by olivine occur in the marble a few feet below the contact. For a few inches above the contact the nepheline gneiss sometimes is biotite-bearing. To the east the nepheline gneiss grades into a band of hybrid nepheline metagabbro (containing pink augite) about 50 feet wide. This in turn is followed by a zone of garnetiferous clinozoisite metagabbro about 220 feet wide. Clinozoisite persists in the metagabbro for 100 feet beyond this zone and is followed by hornblende-(pyroxene)-plagioclase metagabbro. Pyroxene-garnet-(nepheline) skarn is interlayered with nepheline gneiss at one outcrop ear the fault contact with marble. It appears that gabbroic magma has intruded limestone and developed a skarn at the contact. Assimilation of lime by the magma has developed pink augite (titanaugite ?) , clinozoisite and grossularite in the gabbro. Subsequent injection of a highly fluid nepheline magma, or of solutions containing soda, alumina and iron and not saturated with silica, formed nepheline-bearing rock between marble and gabbro. Soda metasomatism produced a hybrid nepheline gabbro adjacent to the nepheline-bearirg rock. Regional metamorphism later imparted a foliation to the marble and nepheline rock, and produced a metamorphic texture the gabbro. Faulting of a unknown age brought nepheline gneiss and marble into sharp contact and probably trapped the skarn as horses only one of which is now exposed. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | petrographic, metagabbro, nepheline, gneiss, marble, Monmouth Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada, hornblende nepheline garnet gneiss, Clinozoisite | en_US |
dc.title | Nepheline Metagabbro And Associated Hybrid Rocks From Monmouth Township, Ontario | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | None | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
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