Comparison of Macedon and Darwin glass
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Abstract
Chemical analyses are presented for major and minor elements in two specimens of natural glass reported from Macedon, Victoria, and are compared with new analyses of glass from Mt. Darwin, Tasmania. One specimen of Macedon glass is dark, the other light; both are spongy with relatively large cavities of size uncommon in Darwin glass. Some of the new analyses of Darwin glass extend considerably the compositional range previously reported for Mg, Ni and Co. The chemical composition of Macedon glass cannot be distinguished from that of Darwin glass for any of twenty-five elements investigated. It appears possible that the two specimens of glass reported from Macedon may represent either two mislabelled pieces of Darwin glass, or else a separate natural occurrence of Darwin glass 560 km north of Mt. Darwin.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Comparison of Macedon and Darwin glass |
| Series title | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta |
| DOI | 10.1016/0016-7037(67)90108-1 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Year Published | 1967 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Description | 9 p. |
| First page | 1595 |
| Last page | 1603 |
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