Igneous and metamorphic processes in the Shap Granite and its aureole

The Shap Granite outcrops in eastern Cumbria, N.W. England and is a post—orogenic granite intruded during the Lower Devonian (ie 394 Ma) into rocks of Ordovician to Siturian age. It is of adamellite composition and is notable in having megacrysts of orthoclase which crystallised late (relative to th...

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Main Author: Caunt, Stephen Lloyd
Other Authors: Powell, R. ; Wilson, M.
Published: University of Leeds 1986
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378392