内蒙古头道桥地区蓝闪石片岩和相关变质岩石岩石学特征及其构造意义

内蒙古头道桥地区出露了一套经高压变质形成的岩石组合。本次研究通过岩相学和矿物化学分析,根据矿物组合的不同,识别出蓝片岩、绿片岩两种不同类型的岩石类型。其中,蓝片岩的矿物组合为角闪石（蓝闪石、蓝透闪石）+绿帘石+钠长石+绿泥石+石英+赤铁矿±多硅白云母±方解石±榍石;绿片岩的矿物组合为绿泥石+钠长石+石英±绿帘石±角闪石（阳起石、镁角闪石、蓝透闪石、冻蓝闪石等）±多硅白云母±赤铁矿。确定了蓝片岩的峰期变质级别为绿帘-蓝闪片岩相,峰期变质温度为400~600℃,压力为1.2~1.4 GPa。绿片岩的峰期变质级别为绿帘-角闪岩相。结合前人研究成果,认为蓝片岩和绿片岩的形成与额尔古纳地块和兴安地块的碰撞拼合有关。     

中国蓝闪片岩相的变质作用

本文论述了中国蓝闪片岩的分布、变质条件及其构造位置。中国的蓝闪片岩从中晚元古代开始,各变质期均有出现。根据矿物组合,可分为两类:第一类蓝闪片岩常含有高压矿物,如硬柱石、硬玉和文石以及蓝闪石、绿纤石、黑硬绿泥石、多硅白云母、红帘石等,属高压亚绿片岩相,称蓝闪—硬柱石片岩相,形成温度约250—350℃,压力大于500—800MPa,甚至可达1200MPa。此类蓝闪—硬柱石片岩相多代表海洋板块古消减带。第二类蓝闪片岩的常见矿物为蓝闪石、青铝闪石或镁钠闪石、黑硬绿泥石、红帘石和绿片岩相中的绿帘石、阳起石、绿泥石、白云母、有时还有黑云母、铁铝榴石和钠质辉石。形成温度约350—450℃,压力500—800MPa。此类蓝闪绿片岩相虽处于活动带,但与板块构造没有直接关系。我国西藏南部和内蒙温都尔庙属第一类,但大部分蓝闪片岩带属第二类。     

早古生代北阿尔金HP/LT混杂岩片——一个“化石”俯冲隧道

北阿尔金高压/低温(HP/LT)变质岩呈构造岩片分布在俯冲-增生杂岩中，主要由强变形的变质沉积岩(泥质片岩、钙质片岩和石英片岩)和少量呈透镜状分布在变沉积岩中的蓝片岩和榴辉岩组成，与相邻的蛇绿混杂岩呈断层接触。榴辉岩主要矿物为绿辉石、石榴子石、多硅白云母、石英、冻蓝闪石，含少量蓝闪石、绿泥石、方解石、钠长石、榍石。蓝片岩主要矿物为蓝闪石、石榴子石、碳酸盐类矿物、阳起石、绿帘石、钠云母、绿泥石、钠长石和石英，偶见多硅白云母，其中在部分蓝片岩的石榴子石中有少量硬柱石和绿辉石包体。本文对蓝片岩(样品A06-16-7)和榴辉岩(样品A03-3-5.3)开展了岩石学和相平衡模拟研究，得到它们形成的压力峰期的温压条件分别是：T=～524℃、P=～2.1GPa和T=～527℃、P=～2.2GPa,并均经历了后期蓝片岩相的退变质叠加。结合区域上已有的研究表明，北阿尔金HP/LT混杂岩片中不同类型岩石可能经历了不同的变质演化历史，反映了古俯冲隧道的不均匀性，并在俯冲隧道的较浅部混杂在一起，共同经历了蓝片岩相或蓝片岩-绿片岩过渡相条件下的透入性变形作用。     

吉林延边开山屯地区蓝片岩相变质作用——来自硬绿泥石＋纤锰柱石＋多硅白云母组合的证据

吉林延边开山屯低级变质作用发育于兴凯地块西南晚古生代活动大陆边缘，这里产出二叠纪末的消减增生杂岩。低级变质作用矿物除冻蓝闪石、阳起石、玉髓、黝帘石、多硅白云母、绿泥石、钠长石外，还在灰黑色变泥质岩中发现硬绿泥石 纤锰柱石 多硅白云母组合。这是国内首次报道的以泥质岩为原岩并具有硬绿泥石 纤锰柱石标志矿物组合的蓝片岩相岩石。研究表明，该组合的形成温度290．14(或370．8)℃，具明显的低温特征。     

新疆西南天山含柯石英泥质片岩的岩石学特征及变质作用p-T轨迹

新疆西南天山高压-超高压变质带主要由泥质-长英质片岩组成,其中包裹榴辉岩、蓝片岩和超基性岩等透镜体。含柯石英泥质片岩具斑状/筛状变晶结构,片状构造,矿物组合为石榴石、多硅白云母、钠长石、钠云母、蓝闪石、冻蓝闪石、石英以及少量褐帘石、金红石和榍石,柯石英包裹在石榴石变斑晶内。根据岩石学特征和相平衡模拟的结果,识别出含柯石英泥质片岩经历了3期变质演化阶段:压力峰期之前的进变质阶段(Ⅰ),由石榴石核部到含柯石英区域的环带确定,特征为温度和压力同时升高,所限定的压力峰期条件为500℃、2.9 GPa,模拟的矿物组合为石榴石+蓝闪石+硬玉+纤柱石+硬柱石+金红石+多硅白云母+柯石英,与含柯石英的事实相符;压力峰期之后的升温降压至温度峰期阶段(Ⅱ),由石榴石含柯石英区域到边部的环带确定,特征为温度升高压力降低,所限定的温度峰期条件为560℃、2.35 GPa,模拟的矿物组合为石榴石+蓝闪石+硬玉+硬柱石+金红石+多硅白云母+石英,发生连续脱水反应蓝闪石+纤柱石+硬柱石=石榴石+硬玉+水,释放出岩石中约45%的水,导致柯石英转变为石英,纤柱石消失;温度峰期之后的近等温降压阶段(Ⅲ),由晚期矿物组合钠云母+钠长石+冻蓝闪石+榍石+石英的稳定温压条件确定(495~550℃、1.0~1.15 GPa),减压抬升过程中,在约2.1 GPa处,发生脱水反应硬玉+硬柱石=蓝闪石+钠云母+水,导致硬柱石消失,钠云母出现,在约1.1~1.25 GPa处,榍石取代金红石,绿辉石消失,钠长石和冻蓝闪石出现。阶段Ⅱ强烈的连续脱水过程十分利于矿物组合的再平衡,导致绝大多数压力峰期的柯石英转变为石英,仅有极少数因包裹在刚性石榴石中而得以保存。含柯石英泥质片岩及其榴辉岩透镜体经历了完全相同的俯冲折返过程。     

新疆西天山高压变质带的变质矿物与变质作用演化

新疆西天山高压变质带主要由石榴石，角闪石，绿辉石，多硅白云母，钠云母，绿帘石，绿泥石，钠长石，石英，榍石和金红石等组成，石榴石主要含铁铝榴石组份，角闪石有蓝闪石，亚铁蓝闪石，青铝闪石，冻蓝闪石等类型，变质矿物组合显示高压变质带经历了由硬柱石蓝片岩相，榴辉岩相，绿帘蓝片岩相至绿片岩相的变质作用演化进程。     

澜沧江杂岩带小黑江-上允地区蓝片岩的成因及变质演化

通过对澜沧江杂岩带小黑江-上允地区蓝片岩的岩相学、地球化学、成因矿物学以及相平衡模拟的综合研究,阐述蓝片岩的原岩以及变质演化过程。地球化学分析结果显示,蓝片岩具有一致的稀土元素配分模式,具弱Eu正或负异常,稀土元素和微量元素特征与OIB相似,其原岩可能为OIB型玄武岩。详细矿物学研究表明,本区蓝片岩记录了俯冲峰期蓝片岩相变质和峰期后绿片岩相变质两个变质阶段,其矿物组合分别为蓝闪石+钠长石+多硅白云母+绿泥石+绿帘石和蓝闪石+钠长石±阳起石+绿泥石+绿帘石。通过Na_2O-Ca O-Fe O-MgO-Al_2O_3-SiO_2-H_2O-O体系相平衡计算,得到两个阶段的压力范围分别约为0.95 GPa和0.40 GPa。     

北祁连山清水沟蓝片岩带中含硬柱石蓝片岩和榴辉岩的岩石学﹑40Ar/39Ar年代学及其意义

本文在北祁连造山带清水沟高级蓝片岩中发现了硬柱石,硬柱石作为包体出现在石英颗粒中,颗粒细小(9.5～4μm),无自形晶。在与其伴随的榴辉岩中也发现了硬柱石包体。利用矿物内部一致性热力学数据和Domino/Theriak软件计算了清水沟含硬柱石榴辉岩、百经寺白石崖绿帘石蓝片岩、清水沟绿帘石蓝片岩和阿柔煤矿含硬柱石蓝片岩的温压条件分别是:495～519℃,2.24～2.39GPa;530～600℃,1.35～2.15GPa;520～545℃,2.20～2.35GPa;544～576℃,1.92～2.08GPa。反映清水沟高级蓝片岩带经历了硬柱石蓝片岩相到绿帘石蓝片岩相的变质转化,与含硬柱石榴辉岩的温压条件相似,代表了古祁连山洋向北俯冲发生高压低温变质作用的产物。40Ar/39Ar同位素年代学研究表明,绿帘石蓝片岩的变质年龄分别为447±1.7～447±5Ma和453±2～454±2Ma;低温榴辉岩中蓝闪石得到的蓝片岩相退变年龄为392±12～400±3Ma。综合以上岩石学﹑地球化学和同位素年代分析等资料,进一步探讨了北祁连造山带早古生代大地构造演化过程。     

中国西部元古代蓝片岩带——世界上保存最好的前寒武纪蓝片岩

阿克苏附近所发现的元古界阿克苏群为一完整的蓝片岩-绿片岩系列,我们通过野外调查肯定了这一认识,并认为它是高压-温相的变质块体,长40km,宽约2.5km.该变质岩由强烈片理化的绿泥石-黑硬绿泥石石墨片岩、黑硬绿泥石-多硅白云母片岩、绿片岩、蓝片岩及少量石英岩、变铁质岩组成.原岩包活泥质岩、砂岩、基性玻屑凝灰岩、块状熔岩、枕状熔岩及少量深海沉积物.蓝片岩的矿物组合:青铝闪石-绿帘石-绿泥石-钠长石-石英-阳起石.阿克苏群为世界上真正的前震旦纪蓝片岩之一,其变质年龄至少有800Ma.     

北祁连山清水沟蓝片岩带中含硬柱石蓝片岩和榴辉岩的岩石学、40Ar/39Ar年代学及其意义

本文在北祁连造山带清水沟高级蓝片岩中发现了硬柱石,硬柱石作为包体出现在石英颗粒中,颗粒细小(9.5～4 μm),无自形晶.在与其伴随的榴辉岩中也发现了硬柱石包体.利用矿物内部一致性热力学数据和Domino/Theriak软件计算了清水沟含硬柱石榴辉岩、百经寺白石崖绿帘石蓝片岩、清水沟绿帘石蓝片岩和阿柔煤矿含硬柱石蓝片岩的温压条件分别是:495～519℃,2.24～2.39 GPa; 530～600℃,1.35～2.15 GPa; 520～545℃,2.20～2.35 GPa; 544～576℃,1.92～2.08 GPa.反映清水沟高级蓝片岩带经历了硬柱石蓝片岩相到绿帘石蓝片岩相的变质转化,与含硬柱石榴辉岩的温压条件相似,代表了古祁连山洋向北俯冲发生高压低温变质作用的产物.40 Ar/39 Ar同位素年代学研究表明,绿帘石蓝片岩的变质年龄分别为447±1.7～447±5 Ma和453±2～454±2Ma;低温榴辉岩中蓝闪石得到的蓝片岩相退变年龄为392±12～400±3 Ma.综合以上岩石学、地球化学和同位素年代分析等资料,进一步探讨了北祁连造山带早古生代大地构造演化过程.     

Metamorphism and deformation of blueschist belts and their tectonic implications, North Qilian Mountains, China

Abstract Two blueschist belts in the North Qilian Mountains occur in Middle Cambrian and Lower Ordovician strata and strike N30–35°W for about 500 km along the Caledonian fold belt on the south-west margin of the Sino-Korean plate. The styles of metamorphism and deformation are quite different in the two belts. The Middle Cambrian to Ordovician rocks in the high-grade belt are mainly blueschists and C-type eclogites in which six phases of lower and upper crustal deformation have been recognized. The rocks contain glaucophane, phengite, epidote, clinozoisite, chlorite, garnet, stilpnomelane, piedmontite, albite, titanite and quartz. The estimated P–T conditions of eclogites are 340 ± 10°C, 8 ± 1 kbar and, of blueschist, >380°C, 6–7 kbar. The Ordovician rocks in the low-grade belt are characterized by ductile to brittle deformation in the middle to upper crust. The low-grade blueschists contain glaucophane, lawsonite, pumpellyite, aragonite, albite and chlorite. The estimated P–T conditions are 150–250°C and 4–7 kbar.
K–Ar and ³⁹Ar/⁴⁰Ar geochronology on glaucophane and phengite from the high-grade blueschist belt suggest two stages of metamorphism at 460–440 and 400–380 Ma, which may represent the times of subduction and orogeny. The subduction metamorphism of the northern low-grade blueschist belt took place approximately at the end of the Ordovician.     

西藏羌塘中部绒马地区石榴蓝闪片岩变质演化过程的视剖面模拟及其意义

藏北羌塘地体中部产出一变质杂岩带,因其地貌突起,将羌塘地体一分为二,故常称其为羌中隆起带。虽然在该变质杂岩带中先后识别出蓝片岩、榴辉岩等变质岩,但对该变质杂岩带演化过程的认识却存在截然不同的观点,一种观点认为该变质杂岩带是原位的古特提斯板块缝合带的标志;另一观点则针锋相对,认为该变质杂岩带系外来的、底辟上升的杂岩带,不能作为古板块缝合带的证据。在该变质杂岩带中部的绒马乡,石榴蓝闪片岩呈大小不一的岩片和/或透镜体产出于石榴石多硅白云母石英片岩内,主要由石榴石变斑晶和由蓝闪石、绿泥石、白云母、绿帘石、石英、钠长石、金红石/钛铁矿、磷灰石、黑云母等矿物构成的基质组成。石榴石变斑晶粒径达2 mm,具典型的生长环带：核部富锰,锰铝榴石分子摩尔分数可达22%,至边部,铁铝榴石和镁铝榴石分子含量显著升高,而锰铝榴石分子含量则快速下降。石榴石变斑晶内部包体发育,可再细分为两类,一类包体产出于核部,包括被解释为硬柱石假象的细粒钠云母,绿帘石所构成的细粒板状集合体和细粒富铁蓝闪石、石英及金红石等包体;另一类包体则为数量较少的自形大颗粒绿帘石包体,产出于石榴石边部,在其内部还有细粒蓝闪石、金红石与石英等包体产出。基质中的角闪石可识别出3期：核部为富铁的蓝闪石,幔部为贫铁的蓝闪石,最外部为冻蓝闪石。基质中的绿帘石和绿泥石常为自形,绿帘石内常见细粒蓝闪石、石英、金红石等包体,而绿泥石边部常有黑云母的冠状体。在PEXPLE程序计算的p T视剖面图中,石榴石核部形成的p T条件为20 GPa、470 ℃,对应硬柱石榴辉岩相,而石榴石边部形成的p T条件为17~18 GPa、530~540 ℃,对应绿帘石榴辉岩相。岩相学观察与p T视剖面模拟研究充分反映了绒马地区石榴蓝闪片岩分别经历了硬柱石榴辉岩相、绿帘石榴辉岩相和近等温快速降压的退变质等变质过程,系冷洋壳快速俯冲与折返的产物,因此,文中支持该变质杂岩带为原位古特提斯板块缝合带的观点。硬柱石转变为绿帘石时,在俯冲通道中释放了大量的流体。T O视剖面研究进一步表明这种矿物相转变只发生于高氧逸度条件下,暗示所释放的流体可能也是高氧逸度流体。该高氧逸度流体可交代上覆地幔楔,并诱发后者发生部分熔融作用形成高氧逸度岩浆,如果这一推测是合理的,则羌塘地块内部应该存在斑岩型铜金矿床。 关键词：羌塘地体; 石榴蓝闪片岩; 视剖面模拟; 富氧流体     

Polyphase and anticlockwise P-T evolution for Franciscan eclogites and blueschists from Jenner, California, USA

High-grade exotic blocks in the Franciscan Complex at Jenner, California, show evidence for polydeformation/metamorphism, with eight distinct stages. Two parallel sets of mineral assemblages [(E) eclogite, and (BS) laminated blueschist] representing different bulk chemistry were identified. Stage 1, recorded by parallel aligned inclusions (S1) of crossite + omphacite + epidote + ilmenite + titanite + quartz (E), and glaucophane + actinolite + epidote + titanite (BS) in the central parts of zoned garnets, represents the epidote blueschist facies. The onset of a second stage (stage 2) is represented by a weak crenulation of S1 and growth of garnet. This stage develops a well-defined S2 foliation of orientated barroisite + epidote + titanite (E), or subcalcic actinolite + epidote + titanite (BS) at c. 90d? to S1, with syntectonic growth of garnet, defining the (albite-)epidote-amphibolite facies. A third stage, with aligned inclusions of glaucophane + (subcalcic) actinolite + phengite parallel to S2 in the outermost rims of large garnet grains, is assigned to the transitional (albite-)epidote-amphibolite/(garnet-bearing) epidote blueschist facies. The fourth stage represents the peak metamorphism, and was identified by unorientated matrix minerals in the least retrograded samples. In this stage the mineral assemblages garnet + omphacite + glaucophane + phengite (E) and garnet + winchite + phengite + epidote (BS) both represent the eclogite facies. Stage 5 is represented by the retrogression of eclogite facies assemblages to the epidote blueschist facies assemblages crossite/glaucophane + garnet + omphacite + epidote + phengite (E), and glaucophane + actinolite + epidote + phengite (BS), with the development of an S5 foliation subparallel to S2. Stage 6 represents a crenulation of S5, with the development of a well-defined S6 crenulation cleavage wrapping around relics of the eclogite facies assemblages. This crenulation cleavage is further weakly crenulated during a D7 event. Post-D7 (stage 8) is recorded by the growth of lawsonite + chlorite ± actinolite replacing garnet, and by veins of lawsonite + pumpellyite + aragonite and phengite + apatite. The different, yet coeval, mineral parageneses observed in rock types (E) and (BS) are probably due to differences in bulk chemistry. The metamorphic evolution from stage 1 to stage 8 seems to have been broadly continuous, following an anticlockwise P-Tpath: (1) epidote blueschist (garnet-free) to (2) (albite-)epidote-amphibolite to (3) transitional epidote blueschist (garnet-bearing)/(albite-)epidote-amphibolite to (4) eclogite to (5) epidote blueschist (garnet-bearing) to (6-7) epidote blueschist (garnet-free) facies to (8) lawsonite + pumpellyite + aragonite-bearing assemblages. This anticlockwise P-T path may have resulted from a decreasing geothermal gradient with time in the Mesozoic subduction zone of California at early or pre-Franciscan metamorphism.     

Pumpellyite–actinolite facies of the Sanbagawa metamorphism

The pumpellyite–actinolite facies proposed by Hashimoto is defined by the common occurrence of the pumpellyite–actinolite assemblage in basic schists. It can help characterize the paragenesis of basic and intermediate bulk compositions, which are common constituents of various low-grade metamorphic areas. The dataset of mutually consistent thermodynamic properties of minerals gives a positive slope for the boundary between the pumpellyite–actinolite and prehnite–pumpellyite facies in P–T space. In the Sanbagawa belt in Japan, the mineral parageneses of hematite-bearing and -free basic schists, as well as pelitic schists have been well documented. The higher temperature limit of this facies is defined by the disappearance of the pumpellyite+epidote+actinolite+chlorite assemblage in hematite-free basic schists with X_Fe3+ of epidote around 0.20–0.25 and the appearance of epidote+actinolite+chlorite assemblage with X^Ep_Fe3+≤0.20. In hematite-bearing basic schists, there is a continuous change of paragenesis to higher grade, epidote–glaucophane or epidote–blueschist facies. In pelitic schists, the albite+lawsonite+chlorite assemblage does occur but only rarely, and its assemblage cannot be used to determine the regional thermal structure. The lower temperature equivalence of the pumpellyite–actinolite assemblage is not observed in the field. The Mikabu Greenstone complex and the northern margin of the Chichibu complex, which are located to the south of the Sanbagawa belt, are characterized by clinopyroxene+chlorite or lawsonite+actinolite assemblages, which are lower temperature assemblages than the pumpellyite+actinolite assemblage. These three metamorphic complexes belong to the same subduction-metamorphic complex. The pumpellyite–actinolite facies or subfacies can be useful to help reveal the field thermal structure of metamorphic complexes     

Cold subduction of the Neotethys: the metamorphic record from finely banded lawsonite and epidote blueschists and associated metabasalts of the Nagaland Ophiolite Complex,India

In this study, we have deduced the thermal history of the subducting Neotethys from its eastern margin, using a suite of partially hydrated metabasalts from a segment of the Nagaland Ophiolite Complex (NOC), India. Located along the eastern extension of the Indus‐Tsangpo suture zone (ITSZ), the N–S‐trending NOC lies between the Indian and Burmese plates. The metabasalts, encased within a serpentinitic mélange, preserve a tectonically disturbed metamorphic sequence, which from west to east is greenschist (GS), pumpellyite–diopside (PD) and blueschist (BS) facies. Metabasalts in all the three metamorphic facies record prograde metamorphic overprints directly on primary igneous textures and igneous augite. In the BS facies unit, the metabasalts interbedded with marble show centimetre‐ to metre‐scale interlayering of lawsonite blueschist (LBS) and epidote blueschist (EBS). Prograde HP/LT metamorphism stabilized lawsonite + omphacite (X_Jd = 0.50–0.56 to 0.26–0.37) + jadeite (X_Jd = 0.67–0.79) + augite + ferroglaucophane + high‐Si phengite (Si = 3.6–3.65 atoms per formula unit, a.p.f.u.) + chlorite + titanite + quartz in LBS and lawsonite + glaucophane/ferroglaucophane ± epidote ± omphacite (X_Jd = 0.34) + chlorite + phengite (Si = 3.5 a.p.f.u.) + titanite + quartz in EBS at the metamorphic peak. Retrograde alteration, which was pervasive in the EBS, produced a sequence of mineral assemblages from omphacite and lawsonite‐absent, epidote + glaucophane/ferroglaucophane + chlorite + phengite + titanite + quartz through albite + chlorite + glaucophane to lawsonite + albite + high‐Si phengite (Si = 3.6–3.7 a.p.f.u.) + glaucophane + epidote + quartz. In the PD facies metabasalts, the peak mineral assemblage, pumpellyite + chlorite + titanite + phengitic white mica (Si = 3.4–3.5 a.p.f.u.) + diopside appeared in the basaltic groundmass from reacting titaniferous augite and low‐Si phengite, with prehnite additionally producing pumpellyite in early vein domains. In the GS facies metabasalts, incomplete hydration of augite produced albite + epidote + actinolite + chlorite + titanite + phengite + augite mineral assemblage. Based on calculated T–M(H₂O), T–M(O₂) (where M represents oxide mol.%) and P–T pseudosections, peak P–T conditions of LBS are estimated at ~11.5 kbar and ~340 °C, EBS at ~10 kbar, 325 °C and PD facies at ~6 kbar, 335 °C. Reconstructed metamorphic reaction pathways integrated with the results of P–T pseudosection modelling define a near‐complete, hairpin, clockwise P–T loop for the BS and a prograde P–T path with a steep dP/dT for the PD facies rocks. Apparent low thermal gradient of 8 °C km^?1 corresponding to a maximum burial depth of 40 km and the hairpin P–T trajectory together suggest a cold and mature stage of an intra‐oceanic subduction zone setting for the Nagaland blueschists. The metamorphic constraints established above when combined with petrological findings from the ophiolitic massifs along the whole ITSZ suggest that intra‐oceanic subduction systems within the Neotethys between India and the Lhasa terrane/the Karakoram microcontinent were also active towards east between Indian and Burmese plates.     

A new petrogenetic grid for low-grade metabasites

Abstract We have used internally-consistent thermodynamic data to present calculated phase equilibria for the system Na₂O-CaO-MgO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂O (NCMASH), in the range 0–500° C and 0.1–10 kbar, involving the phases anorthite, glaucophane, grossular, heulandite, jadeite, laumontite, lawsonite, paragonite, prehnite, pumpellyite, stilbite, tremolite, wairakite, zoisite with excess albite, clinochlore, quartz and pure water. Average activity terms derived from published mineral chemical data were included for clinochlore, glaucophane, prehnite, pumpellyite, tremolite, and zoisite. The new petrogenetic grid delineates stability fields and parageneses of common index minerals in zeolite, prehniteactinolite, prehnite-pumpellyite, pumpellyite-actinolite, blueschist and greenschist facies metabasites. The stability fields of mineral assemblages containing prehnite, pumpellyite, epidote, actinolite (+ albite + chlorite + quartz) were analysed in some detail, using activity data calculated from five specific samples. For example, the prehnite-actinolite facies covers a P-T field ranging from about 220 to 320° C at pressures below 4.5 kbar. The transition from the prehnite-actinolite and pumpellyite-actinolite to greenschist facies occurs at about 250–300° C at 1–3 kbar and at about 250–350° C at 3–8 kbar. P-T fields of individual facies overlap considerably due to variations in chemical composition.     

Die Glaukophangesteine,ihre stofflichen Äquivalente und Uniwandlungsprodukte in Nordcalabrien (Süditalien)

In the southern Apennin (= northern part of the region dealt with) and the Coasta Chain (= southern part) there are metabasalts wich are classified in the northern part as:

1. Glaucophane rocks of the albite-lawsonite-glaucophane-subfacies with the assemblage glaucophane + pumpellyite + lawsonite ±albite ±aragonite ±muscovite (7 rock analyses, 8 mineral analyses). These rocks are conceived as relics of an older burial metamorphism.
2. Rocks with pumpellyite and chlorite or also chlorite alone, that are interpreted as reaction rims between the metastable glaucophane rocks and the country rock (phyllites, quartzites). The assemblages pumpellyite + chlorite and chlorite alone are to be found (2 rock analyses and 2 mineral analyses).
3. Rocks with lawsonite and/or epidote belong to the same mineral facies as the country rock: a facies similar to the greenschist facies (called “lawsonite-albite-chlorite-subfacies”) which is characterized by the assemblages lawsonite + albite + chlorite ±calcite and also epidote ±lawsonite + albite + chlorite ± muscovite. These types are attributed to a younger dynamo-metamorphism (2 rock analyses).

In the southern part, the metabasalts can be found only as rocks with epidote and/or lawsonite, a metamorphism with more than one event cannot be proved petrologically (3 rock analyses). Equations of the observed mineral reactions are given. The transitions of one facies into another are represented in the pseudo-quaternary system Al₂O₃-CaO-Na₂O · Al₂O₃-2 Fe₂O₃ + FeO + MnO + MgO-(H₂O). The pressure-temperature conditions are estimated on the basis of published experimental data (300° C and 6–7 kb for the glaucophane rocks; 400° C and about 6 kb for the rocks with lawsonite and/or epidote) and are compared with geologic facts.     

Phase Equilibria of Hornblende-Bearing Eclogite in the Western Dabie Mountain,Central China

The high-pressure (HP) eclogite in the western Dabie Mountain encloses numerous hornblendes,mostly barroisite.Opinions on the peak metamorphic P-T condition,PT path and mineral paragenesis of it are still in dispute.Generally,HP eclogite involves garnet,omphacite, hornblendes and quartz,with or without glaucophane,zoisite and phengite.The garnet has compositional zoning with X_(Mg) increase,X_(Ca) and X_(Mn) decrease from core to rim,which indicates a progressive metamorphism.The phase equilibria of the ...