Comments on ‘Kaersutite from San Carlos, Arizona, with Comments on the Paragenesis of this Mineral’ by Brian Mason

Martin Prinz¹ and C. E. Nehru

Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
Department of Geology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210

¹On leave from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

Summary: Electron probe analyses have been made of eight kaersutites from San Carlos, Arizona, and one from Kakanui, New Zealand; also of olivine, clinopyroxene, ilmenite, and spinel from San Carlos. There is not as yet adequate evidence that the kaersutite is an upper mantle phase.

Mineralogical Magazine; September 1969 v. 37; no. 287; p. 333-337; DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1969.037.287.03
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