Crystallization History of the Upper Layered Series, Kap Edvard Holm, East Greenland

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Author: ELSDON, R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1971
• Subjects: Articles; Greenland; Kap; East Greenland; Kap Edvard Holm
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/12/3/499; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/12.3.499

Field studies of the Upper Layered Series of the Kap Edvard Holm Complex indicate that consolidation occurred by accumulation of primocrysts near the floor of the magma chamber; nucleation occurred continuously near the roof of the chamber and intermittently near the base. Over an exposed thickness...