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... texture . Olivine which forms the earliest to crystallise is subhedral to rounded with corroded rims . Most of the olivine grains are fractured and transformed to antigorite . In some sections the rounded olivine grains are enclosed ...
... texture . Olivine which forms the earliest to crystallise is subhedral to rounded with corroded rims . Most of the olivine grains are fractured and transformed to antigorite . In some sections the rounded olivine grains are enclosed ...
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... textures are preserved wherein rounded grains of diopside are enclosed by laths of plagioclase . Larger tabular ... texture . Olivine and clinopyroxenes occur as subhedral grains while the plagioclases are tabular . Compositionally ...
... textures are preserved wherein rounded grains of diopside are enclosed by laths of plagioclase . Larger tabular ... texture . Olivine and clinopyroxenes occur as subhedral grains while the plagioclases are tabular . Compositionally ...
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... texture . Concordent intrusions of pegmatite traverse the unit . Its average thickness is less than 1000m . The second type is constituted by the conglomerate ( quartzitic pebbles with a diameter of 10 cm ) associated with bands of ...
... texture . Concordent intrusions of pegmatite traverse the unit . Its average thickness is less than 1000m . The second type is constituted by the conglomerate ( quartzitic pebbles with a diameter of 10 cm ) associated with bands of ...
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Tectonics and Structure of the Pamirs | 1 |
Metamorphic events in Ladakh Indus suture zone Karakorum | 17 |
Peninsular and Himalayan Precambrian Belts | 31 |
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