Columnar-jointed bentonite below a doleritic sill, Tideswell Dale, Derbyshire, UK: formation during prograde contact metamorphism
Columnar-jointed tuffs (bentonites) are located below the Lower Carboniferous Tideswell Dale Sill, Derbyshire, in an abandoned quarry. There are three zones of prismatic joints, columnar joints (∼60 cm thick and mean column width of 4.1 cm) and massive, conchoidally fractured rock sequentially from...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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