
Reply to the comment by C. K. Brooks and J. Gittins on my paper "Pseudoleucite from the Gardar of South Greenland"
Author(s) -
SP Hesselbo
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
bulletin of the geological society of denmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-7070
pISSN - 0011-6297
DOI - 10.37570/bgsd-1988-36-14
Subject(s) - epistemology , geology , computer science , history , algorithm , philosophy
rooks and Gittins make three main criticisms of my paper. The first, and perhaps the most important, is that they (Gittins et al. 1980) have already described and illustrated "all the textures described by Hesselbo and some additional ones". However, the four photomicrographs referred to (Gittins et al. 1980, p.121) are only of intergrowth sets from plutonic rocks and devoid of crystal outlines, which, by their own conclusions, should not actually be called pseudoleucite at all....