Crystallization of pyroxenes from basalts

Author:: Barth, Tom F.W.
Title:: Crystallization of pyroxenes from basalts
Periodical:: American Mineralogist
Year:: 1931
Volume:: 16
Pages:: 195-208
Subject:: Crystalization Basalt
Summary:: A study of basalts from many localities, including several specimens from the island of Hawaii, leads to the conclusion that pigeonite is the most abundant pyroxene in such rocks. Pyroxenes crystallized from basaltic magma show a regular sequence from diopsidic to hypersthenic (pigeonitic).
Label:: Geology
URL:: http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM16/AM16_195.pdf
Date:: May 1931
Collection:: Periodicals