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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.1976.040.315.07</article-id>
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<article-title>Narsarsukite: A New Occurrence in Peralkaline Trachyte, South Greenland</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Upton</surname>
<given-names>B. G. J.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Hill</surname>
<given-names>P. G.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Jefferies</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Ford</surname>
<given-names>C. E.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Department of Geology, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW</aff></contrib-group>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Macdonald</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">*</xref>
<aff id="A1"><label>*</label>Department of Environmental Sciences, Lancaster, LA1 4YR</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>9</month>
<year>1976</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<issue>315</issue>
<fpage>737</fpage>
<lpage>746</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>4</day>
<month>7</month>
<year>1975</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>11</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>1975</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1976, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1976</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>A flinty, spherulitic dyke of peralkaiine trachyte in a Precambrian dyke-swarm consists mainly of albite and aegirine. Within this, euhedral crystals of narsarsukite, Na<sub>2</sub>(Ti,Fe)Si<sub>4</sub>O<sub>10</sub>(F), occur as short prisms elongate parallel to <italic>c</italic>. This distinguishes them from all previously described narsarsukites, which have tabular habits. Minor phases present include micas, apatite, quartz, pectolite, nordite, and a thorium silicate. Probe analyses are presented for narsarsukite, aegirine, aibite, biotite, apatite, pectolite, nordite, and the thorium silicate.</p>
<p>On mineralogical and geochemical grounds it is unlikely that the narsarsukite-bearing dyke is a differentiate of supposedly mantle-derived basalt-trachyte-comendite magmas in the region. The dyke is colinear with a comendite dyke exposed at lower altitude and it is suggested that the narsarsukite-bearing dyke developed as a rheomorphic fenite generated by reaction between quartz diorite basement and fugitive alkaline solutions from the subjacent comendite.</p></abstract>
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