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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.1979.043.328.12</article-id>
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<article-title>The Nature and Significance of Exsolved Phases in Some Chrome Spinels from the Rhum Layered Intrusion</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Putnis</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Price</surname>
<given-names>G. D.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Mineral Sciences Group, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EW</aff></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1979</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>43</volume>
<issue>328</issue>
<fpage>519</fpage>
<lpage>526</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>23</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>1979</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1979, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1979</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>Chrome spinels from seams in the Rhum layered intrusion, Inner Hebrides, generally contain very fine platelets of exsolved phases. Despite the low bulk Ti content (&#x003C; 1%) of the spinel grains, analytical electron microscopy shows these platelets to be highly enriched in titanium. Electron diffraction indicates the presence of platelets of two different phases, one a magnesian ilmenite, the other a defect spinel intermediate phase. The platelets are the result of oxidation of the spinel at moderate (<italic>c.</italic> 600 &#x00B0;C) temperatures and their distribution suggests that oxygen fugacity gradients existed across some of the seams.</p></abstract>
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