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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1957.31.239.07</article-id>
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<article-title>Sapphire-Bearing Rocks from MacRobertson Land, Antarctica</article-title>
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<surname>Secnit</surname>
<given-names>E. R.</given-names>
</name><degrees>M.Sc., Ph.D.</degrees>
<aff>School of Geology, University of Adelaide.</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1957</year>
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<volume>31</volume>
<issue>239</issue>
<fpage>690</fpage>
<lpage>697</lpage>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1957, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1957</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>A small isolated outcrop in a large area of charnockites in the Mawson area, MacRobertson Land, Antarctica, consists of enstatite-sapphirine-cordierite rocks. Other highly magnesian outcrops occur in the district and these rocks may be completely recrystallized xenoliths. Analyses of the country rock, the two sapphirine-bearing rocks, and the sapphirine are given; the country rock is very rich in iron and has a high FeO : MgO ratio, while the sapphirine-bearing rocks are very low in iron and high in MgO, approximating to ternary mixtures of MgO, Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, and SiO<sub>2</sub>.</p></abstract>
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