| Reference Type | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
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| Title | Coexisting sodic and calcic amphiboles from high-pressure metamorphic belts and the stability of barroisitic amphibole |
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| Journal | Mineralogical Magazine | ISSN | 0026-461X |
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| Authors | Ernst, W. G. | Author |
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| Year | 1979 (June) | Volume | 43 |
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| Issue | 326 |
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| Publisher | Mineralogical Society |
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| Download URL | https://rruff.info/doclib/MinMag/Volume_43/43-326-269.pdf+ |
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| DOI | doi:10.1180/minmag.1979.043.326.09Search in ResearchGate |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 3020 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:3020:9 |
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| Full Reference | Ernst, W. G. (1979) Coexisting sodic and calcic amphiboles from high-pressure metamorphic belts and the stability of barroisitic amphibole. Mineralogical Magazine, 43 (326) 269-278 doi:10.1180/minmag.1979.043.326.09 |
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| Plain Text | Ernst, W. G. (1979) Coexisting sodic and calcic amphiboles from high-pressure metamorphic belts and the stability of barroisitic amphibole. Mineralogical Magazine, 43 (326) 269-278 doi:10.1180/minmag.1979.043.326.09 |
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| In | (1979, June) Mineralogical Magazine Vol. 43 (326) Mineralogical Society |
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| Abstract/Notes | SummaryCompositions of glaucophanes and actinolite-hornblende solid solutions occurring in chemically similar metabasaltic rocks from blueschist terranes in east-central Shikoku, W. California, Valtournanche (W. Alps), and W. Liguria are compared. Chemical contrasts among coexisting Na and Ca amphibole pairs, which reflect disparate P-T histories under the presumed attendance of local equilibrium, include: Na contents are rather high among barroisitic hornblendes from the western and Ligurian Alps, as well as among high-grade tectonic blocks from California; in contrast, actinolitic amphiboles from both lower-grade Franciscan tectonic blocks and in situ schists and the blueschists of Shikoku are impoverished in Na relative to blue-green hornblendes. Sodic amphiboles contain less than 0. 5 Aliv per formula unit, whereas Alvi is very high; a situation reversed among calcic amphiboles. The Na + Ca contents ofglaucophanes are strongly clustered around the sum of 2.0 (i.e. A site vacant) whereas calcic amphiboles have a wider range with the A site variably occupied. No solvus has been detected within either sodic or calcic amphiboles under blueschist facies conditions. For low-grade metabasaltic parageneses, a miscibility gap separates these two amphibole groups; at relatively high grade such compositions have sodic calcic amphiboles of barroisitic type; this may mean that glaucophane + hornblende assemblages are metastable, accounting for textural relations indicating that the sodic amphibole typically did not grow at the same time as the barroisite. Ti, Mn, and K appear to be concentrated in calcic amphibole compared to coexisting glaucophane, probably in the M2, M4, and A sites, respectively.Contrasts in coexisting amphibole tie lines are thought to be a consequence of the fact that the parageneses of Shikoku and California reflect high P and very high P prograde P-T paths respectively, whereas those from Valtournache and W. Liguria show evidence of decompression recrystallization (or back-reaction) of high P (i.e. eclogitic) protoliths. Comparison of the inferred physical conditions operating during the production of these four contrasting paragenetic sequences allows the provisional assignment of a P-T stability region for barroisitic amphibole in metabasaltic rocks as: P 4–5 kb at c. 350°; P 5–7 kb at c. 450 °C. |
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