Orbicular quartz diorite in Kemi, NW Finland

The orbicular rock in Kemi is exposed in one outcrop 10 m2 in size. The country rock is a quartz diorite of the Archean pre-Svecokarelian basement complex. The orbicules are spheroidal or ellipsoidal, 5-16 cm in diameter, and randomly distributed in a leucocratic quartz diorite matrix. They may have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: V. Perttunen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geological Society of Finland 1983-06-01
Series:Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland
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Online Access:http://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume55/sgs_bt_055_1_pages_051_056.pdf