Coronas from the Thessaloniki gabbros (North Greece)

Coronas which have been developed between olivine and plagioclase in Precambrian gabbroic rocks from Thessaloniki, Greece, have been studied. These consist commonly of (olivine), clinopyroxene, amphibole (plagioclase) and rarely of (olivine) orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene amphibole (plagioclase) assemblages. The results of the electron-probe microanalysis of the above constituent minerals are presented. The formation of these coronas by regional or thermal metamorphism is unlikely, but an origin by a two-way diffusion of material across the olivine and plagioclase interface is proposed.     

Coronas in olivine gabbros and iron ores from Susimäki and Riuttamaa,Finland

Coronas have been studied by petrographie and microprobe techniques in metamorphosed olivine gabbros and associated iron ores from Susimäki and Riuttamaa in Southwest Finland. Three types of coronas are distinguished occurring between the following primary minerals: (1) olivine-plagioclase, (2) opaque oxides-plagioclase, (3) opaque oxides-clinopy-roxene. Secondary corona minerals are, in order of decreasing abundance, hornblende, orthopyroxene, spinel, olivine, ilmenite, and magnetite. This is the first reported occurrence of coexisting primary and secondary olivines in coronas. Quantitative approximations of the corona-producing reactions are given by chemical equations of the analyzed reactant and product mineral phases. Individual coronas of all three types developed essentially as allochemical systems open to mass transfer by an intergranular fluid phase. The overall corona formation within the volume of a handspecimen likely involved only a net gain of water and a loss of Na.     

Subsidence of the Thessaloniki (northern Greece) coastal plain, 1960–1999

Comparison of aerial photos, maps and triangulation data reveal that in the last 40 yr a part of the Thessaloniki coastal plain, a delta formed in the last 2500 yr, subsided at a rate of up to 10 cm/yr. As a consequence the sea invaded up to 2 km inland; precious land in the suburbs of the city was lost, while a village and major industrial plants are in risk of flooding. Part of the land was reclaimed thanks to barriers, pumping and artificial raising of the land surface. Yet, the situation is unstable and flooding is not unusual. Ground water withdrawal for the needs of the Thessaloniki metropolitan complex has initially been regarded as the cause of the subsidence. However, the lack of correlation in space and in time between fluctuations of piezometric levels, topographic changes and pumping indicates that the observed subsidence should be regarded as the cumulative effect of several factors, including consolidation of near-surface sediments due to the decline of the piezometric level and the partial abandonment of the delta, oxidation of peat soils in the vadose zone, synsedimentary deformation (faulting and flow) and loading-induced consolidation of deeper sediments.     

Seismotectonic evidence of an active normal fault beneath Thessaloniki (Greece)

During 3 weeks in 1985, we operated a dense network of portable seismological stations around the city of Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece, where a destructive earthquake had occurred in 1978. We recorded 282 microearthquakes, with magnitudes ranging between -0.2 to 3.0, and we computed 22 Fault Plane Solutions. The experiment was designed to map the stress pattern west of the 1978 shock, and to study the Asvestohorio fault. Around this fault, located near Thessaloniki, Mercier et al. (1983) observed a few cracks during the 1978 shock. The seismicity shows the same scattered pattern seen through the whole Chalkidiki region. We observe also a dense cluster around Asvestohorio, but this cluster is probably related to explosions in nearby mines. After filtering the data from possible explosions we found evidence of seismic activity. The earthquakes are dipping toward the NE, suggesting that the Asvestohorion fault is active. The Fault Plane Solutions do not help in defining the geometry of the fault but the P and T-axes are consistent with the regional stress pattern.     

Coronas in olivine metagabbros from the Proterozoic Chotanagpur terrain at Mathurapur, Bihar, India

The Proterozoic Mathurapur olivine metagabbros possess several types of coronas due to subsolidus reactions between igneous mineral pairs. viz. olivine-plagioclase, ilmenite-plagioclase and pyroxenes-plagioclase. Microprobe analyses of coexisting primary and coronitic minerals from different corona domains, indicate attainment of equilibrium. Mineral chemical data of primary (reactants) and coronitic (products) minerals from the present metagabbros and also from similar studies in the literature are critically examined to evaluate the chemistry of corona reactions by mixing calculations assuming boundary migration. The mass-balanced corona equations are consistent with the allochemical system and do not show volume imbalance. However, SiO₂ and Al₂O₃ in olivine-plagioclase coronas remain immobile, which indicates that the corona reactions therein proceeded with minimum structural rearrangements of (Si.Al)---O bonds.     

A late Holocene record of environmental changes from the Aliki lagoon,Egion, North Peloponnesus,Greece

Aliki lagoon is a small lagoon located on the micro-tidal south coast of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. The sediments of the lagoon recovered in three cores provide a record of late Holocene environmental change, including tectonic subsidence, tsunami layers, and change in local vegetation and sedimentation. Four periods of rapid environmental changes were identified over a 5000-yr-long record. These date from about 4700, 3000, 2500 and 2000 yr BP. Each change is linked to activity on the Egion fault, a deepening of the lagoonal bottom and a rise in relative sea level. Six tsunami events are recorded and have been caused by earthquakes on the Egion fault (three events ∼4700, ∼3000 and ∼2500 BP), Eliki fault (2350±40 yr BP) and two more distal fault ruptures. The vegetation history and pollen zones are similar to those recognised by Jahns (Vegetation Hist. Archaebot. 2 (1993) 187) on the Argive Plain, 100 km southeast of the lagoon. Five successive sedimentological configurations are established in relation to the time frame provided by the tectonic activity: (1) crevasse splay; (2) fresh to brackish water marsh; (3) and (4) brackish to hypersaline “blind” lagoon, and (5) brackish to hypersaline “blind” lagoon or brackish open lagoon.     

The geochemistry and petrogenesis of dolerites and gabbros from the Tertiary central volcanic complex of Slieve Gullion,North East Ireland

Basaltic magmas emplaced into the root zone of the Slieve Gullion volcano have crystallised to rocks varying in texture from dolerite to gabbro. A mineralogical variation from olivine bearing to quartz bearing varieties has been recorded and with the presence of coexisting Ca-rich and Ca-poor pyroxenes, a tholeiitic assemblage is indicated.Geochemical data confirm this prognosis and a continuous spread of compositions from basalt to tholeiitic andesite are interpreted in terms of fractional crystallisation. Modelling of the fractional crystallisation processes indicate an approach to cotectic conditions with fractionation at low pressures involving olivine, plagioclase, clinopyroxene and Ti-magnetite. Primitive magma compositions, indicated by low values of D.I. and 100 Mg/Mg + Fe²⁺ (atomic)>61, show low concentrations of the large ion lithophile elements such as Rb, Ba, Zr, Y, and K. The relatively high CaO content (>11 %) of these rocks invite comparison with high-calcium low-alkali tholeiitic liquids recognised in extrusive and intrusive magmas elsewhere in the North Atlantic Tertiary volcanic province and with magmas currently erupted at active spreading ridges.In north west Britain the field and stratigraphic distribution of these high-calcium low-alkali magmas suggests that they occupy a distinct chronological niche towards the top of the Palaeocene-Eocene volcanic succession succeeding eruption of mildly alkali and transitional basalts. As such, the refractory (high CaO, MgO, etc.) and large ion lithophile depleted geochemistry can be explained either by differential partial melting in the upper mantle source region or melting of a depleted and refractory mantle source which has already contributed to basalt genesis.     

The petrology and geochemistry of massif anorthosites and gabbros of the Bavali fault zone,North Kerala

The massif anorthosites and gabbros occurring in the north Kerala region are localised along the Bavali fault. Several other bodies of granophyres and syeites also occupy this fault. All these bodies are considered to be a continuous graduating igneous series. This paper aims at delineating the field relations, petrochemistry and origin of massif anorthosites and gabbros occurring in the vicinity of the fault. Anorthosites (An 70-55) are nonlayered and highly deformed with no igneous structure present. Gabbros show relict poikilitic texture with a mineralogy of plagioclase, clinopyroxene, hornblende and biotite. Geochemical study suggests dominantly calc-alkaline characteristics for both anorthosites and gabbros. However, their chemical variation is not transitional to indicate evolution by continuous differentiation from a single parent magma. The rock types seem to be chemically unrelated and appear to have evolved independently from discreet magma sources and the magma migration might have only been promoted by the Bavali lineament.     

Determination of 137Cs activities in surface sediments and derived sediment accumulation rates in Thessaloniki Gulf, Greece

Surficial and core samples collected from the eastern Thessaloniki Gulf, located in the NW Aegean Sea, were analyzed for their sedimentation rate and inventories of ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb. The study of the spatial radionuclide dispersion in the specific region is essential for the assessment of marine pollution levels. The sedimentation rates were calculated from the vertical distribution of ¹³⁷Cs and excess ²¹⁰Pb in the sediment cores. The spatial distribution of ¹³⁷Cs was studied with respect to sediment characteristics such as the grain size of the sample and the organic carbon content. The activity concentrations were measured by means of gamma ray spectrometry using HPGe detector for ¹³⁷Cs and gross alpha counting using alpha counter for ²¹⁰Pb. The average sedimentation rate along the sediment cores is characterized by a consistent pattern and varies from 0.18?±?0.02 to 0.22?±?0.03?cm?year^?1. The ¹³⁷Cs inventories varied from 205?±?15 to 602?±?39?Bq?m^?2, while the ²¹⁰Pb inventories of the studied cores exhibited average value of 140?±?9?Bq?m^?2. Elevated ¹³⁷Cs activities were observed compared to certain Mediterranean marine areas; however, they were lower than the reported values in the Black Sea.     

Petrogenesis of the gabbros from Mt. St. Hilaire,Quebec, Canada

Mt. St. Hilaire occurs as a small funnel-shaped intrusion in the Monteregian petrographic province of Quebec and consists of alkali gabbros and later nepheline syenites. Based on field relations, petrography, and geochemistry, five types of gabbro are recognized. In order of intrusion these are: leucogabbro, foliated gabbro, kaersutite-biotite gabbro, kaersutite gabbro, and a gabbro-melagabbro series. Based on analyses of the early-forming ilmenite-titanomagnetite, the gabbros crystallized under high fO₂ conditions which lead to subsequent crystallization of olivines with high MnO contents. Fractionation of ilmenite and titanomagnetite was a major control on the Ti and A[TV]concentrations in the clinopyroxenes. Plagioclase compositions in the gabbros became richer in Ab contents in the sequence gabbro-melagabbro to leucogabbro. Whole-rock analyses suggest that the parental magma of alkali basaltic composition was fairly evolved prior to emplacement. Lack of olivine in the cumulate gabbro-melagabbros and low Ni and Cr in all gabbros may reflect either extreme olivine fractionation and/or a very low olivine content in the source material for these basalts. Differentiation of the gabbros occurred both pre- and post-emplacement, probably by a process of crystal-liquid fractionation at depths between 3-5 and 8 km. This is in accordance with geophysical measurements for other Monteregian intrusions. A model is presented for the mechanism of emplacement.     

Geochemistry of arc-related mantle peridotites and gabbros from the Chaldoran ophiolite,NW Iran

ABSTRACT

The Neo-Tethys-related Chaldoran ophiolite peridotites in NW Iran are remnants of mantle lithosphere, exhumed tectonically during the Late Cretaceous. Harzburgite is the predominant peridotite type, associated with oceanic lower crust cumulate gabbros occasionally. The ophiolite rocks are unconformably overlain by Late Cretaceous-Paleocene sediments. New whole-rock geochemistry of the variably serpentinized harzburgites shows a depleted nature, exemplified by low Al₂O₃, CaO, TiO₂, V and Y and high Ni, Cr and Mg and also low rare earth element (REE) contents. The harzburgites present LREE enrichment. Positive correlations between some LREEs and high field strength elements (HFSE) suggest enrichment of LREEs by melt re-fertilization processes. Cr-spinels have Cr number of [Cr# = Cr/(Cr + Al) = 0.53–0.67], showing medium to high degree of partial melting (F = ~17-20%). Both whole-rock and mineral chemistry data show a supra-subduction zone setting and progressive depletion along with increase in spinel Cr# (MOR to fore arc). The cumulate gabbros have high MgO and SiO₂, low TiO₂ and Ti/V < 10 and also low chondrite normalized Dy (<8.5). The gabbro samples show enriched LREEs and LILEs and depleted HREEs and HFSEs with respect to MORBs.

Subduction initiation (SI) model in a fore-arc/proto-fore-arc environment is suggested for the upper mantle evolution of the Chaldoran ophiolite. The rocks have experienced depletion in a second melting process at the later stages of SI and compositions were probably modified by extraction of island arc tholeiitic (IAT) and possibly boninitic (BON) melts. The chemostratigraphic progression for ‘subduction initiation rule (SIR)’ is likely traceable in Chaldoran mafic-ultramafic sequence, which corresponds to the most Neo-Tethyan ophiolites and is similar to MOR to supra-subduction zone (SSZ) evolution of most Iranian ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer Zagros’ ophiolitic peridotites.     

Surface fault traces and fault plane solutions of the May–June 1978 major shocks in the Thessaloniki area, Greece.

It is shown that the foci of the recent earthquakes in the Thessaloniki area of northern Greece are located in an arcuate seismic zone which is associated with the Serbomacedonian geologic zone. Three main lines of fracture have been observed in the epicentral area after the May–June 1978 earthquakes. Field and macroseismic observations as well as fault plane solutions for the main shock and for the largest foreshock show that both earthquakes are due to a strike slip sinistral motion with a small reverse component on a steeply dipping and trending southeast-northwest fault.     

大别造山带祝家铺辉长岩的铂族元素特征

采用镍锍火试金法结合ICP-MS分析了祝家铺14个辉长岩样品中的Ir,Ru,Rh,Pt和Pd的含量。结果显示其PGE的含量较低,原始地幔标准化后的PGE分布模式呈正斜率型,PPGE相对原始地幔略微亏损,而IPGE强烈亏损,Pd／Ir值(22—138)远高于相应的地幔比值,表明铂族元素发生了分异。对祝家铺辉长岩的铂族元素研究表明,在其源区发生过硫化物的分异作用,地壳的混入可能促进了硫化物的饱和。祝家铺辉长岩中铂族元素的分异是因为在地幔部分熔融和岩浆演化过程中,PPGE主要受硫化物控制,而Ir则存在于非硫化物相如尖晶石、可能还有合金之中。     

Petrology of a leucogabbroic interval within basal layered gabbros at North Arm Mountain,Bay of Islands ophiolite

Data from detailed sample traverses in the layered gabbro unit of the North Arm Mauntain massif, Bay of Islands ophiolite, allow meter-scale resolution of magmatic processes in spreading ridge magma chambers. One suite of 46 samples from a 195 m interval near the base of the layered gabbro unit contains cumulus plagioclase (An_73.7–87.5; average modal abundance=75%), clinopyroxene (Mg#=80.3–86.0; 18%), and olivine (Fo_76.6–82.1; 6%), with intergranular orthopyroxene (Mg#=78.0–83.3; 1%), and accessory Cr-Al spinel (Cr#=32.3–41.4). Ilmenite rims spinel in one sample. Whole rock Zr contents range from <6 to 15 ppm. Plots of stratigraphic height in the traverse versus petrogenetic indicators (e.g. Mg#'s of mafic phases and An in plagioclase) reveal both normal and reverse cryptic variation patterns; the patterns for all indices are generally correlated. The normal portions of the patterns formed during fractional crystallization of basalt batches. Ranges of mineral compositions in the normal trends suggest that 29–38% crystallization of each batch of basalt occurred before magmatic replenishment. The reverse cryptic trends formed by crystallization of hybrid magmas produced during periods of magma mixing. Other evidence for magma mixing is the systematic association of spinel and reversely zoned plagioclase with the reverse trends. Experiments and observations of natural assemblages indicate that 55% modal plagioclase crystallizes from basalts at the olivine+plagioclase+clinopyroxene+liquid piercing point. The average plagioclase content of this suite of leucogabbros from North Arm Mountain is too high to have formed from simple crystallization at the piercing point. Petrologic modeling indicates the leucogabbros may have formed from basalts into which a small amount (<10%) of plagioclase was resorbed during mixing; the initial compositions of these hybrid basalts lie in the plagioclase primary phase volume. Other suites of layered gabbros from North Arm Mountain are not so plagioclase-rich as the leucogabbros described above. Crystallization of basalts in the plagioclase primary phase volume and the consequent formation of plagioclaserich gabbros may occur in restricted portions of zoned magma chambers underlying oceanic spreading centers, or may occur episodically in the overall lifetimes of the magma chambers.     

桂东南新地-安平地区辉长岩的年代学、地球化学特征及其地质意义

桂东南新地-安平地区的辉长岩体主要沿着岑溪-梧州深大断裂带两侧分布,与早古生代地层或震旦纪地层呈侵入接触关系,并被白垩纪地层覆盖。岩相学研究表明,其主体岩性以角闪辉长岩和紫苏角闪辉长岩为主,还有少量的含长辉石岩、辉长闪长岩和辉绿(玢)岩。LA-MC-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年结果显示,角闪辉长岩的形成年龄为249.1±2.8 Ma(MSWD=0.44),相当于早三叠世。地球化学特征研究表明,这些辉长岩体具有较低MgO(2.13%~3.59%)和较高Fe_2O_3T(16.42%~33.53%)、P_2O_5(0.58%~1.18%)和TiO_2(1.52%~2.31%)的特征;岩体相对富集大离子亲石元素(LILE,如Ba、Rb和U),而Nb-Ta、Zr-Hf和Ti等高场强元素相对亏损,显示出与俯冲带有关的岛弧岩浆岩相似的地球化学特征,表明其可能形成于与俯冲-消减作用有关的活动大陆边缘(大陆弧)环境。结合区域地质特征分析认为,扬子板块和华夏板块结合带(称之为钦-杭结合带)西南段有古生代洋盆的存在,该洋盆一直延续至中三叠世的印支运动才最终闭合,本区广泛发育的大陆弧型辉长岩应为该洋盆发生俯冲-消减作用的地质记录。     

Hornblende,gabbros and picrites at Rhiw,Caernarvonshire

Three hornblende-bearing intrusive masses consisting mainly of cumulate rocks derived from a water-rich, alkali-basalt magma are described. They probably all belong to one Lower Palaeozoic 'sill-like' intrusion with an original sloping floor. The sequence is divided into nine zones, and three major, and numerous minor units are recognized. Deuteric activity produced important alteration sequences, while Caledonian regional metamorphism only caused substantial alteration to the mineralogy in the marginal zones of the intrusion.     

Plagioclase replacement textures in partially eclogitised gabbros from the Sanddal mafic-ultramafic complex, Greenland Caledonides

The Sanddal mafic‐ultramafic complex (SMUK) is a cluster of variably eclogitised mafic and ultramafic bodies that comprise the westernmost known eclogite facies locality in the North‐East Greenland eclogite province (NEGEP). Although there are no true eclogites in the SMUK, we interpret three distinct textural types of plagioclase replacement to record sequential stages in adjustment of SMUK olivine gabbro‐norites to eclogite facies conditions. The earliest stage, in which plagioclase was replaced by omphacite/spinel symplectite before nucleation of garnet (Type 1A & 1B) has not previously been described. Documentation of this texture provides clear evidence that, at least in some cases, garnet nucleation is delayed relative to nucleation of omphacite and is a rate‐limiting step for eclogitisation. Type 1C domains were produced by scattered nucleation of garnet in the same sample. In Type 2 domains, plagioclase was replaced by a layered corona with an outer layer of garnet, an inner layer of omphacite and an interior of inclusion‐rich plagioclase. In Type 3 domains, the omphacite layer was overgrown by the garnet rim, and omphacite is preserved only as inclusions in garnet. In more coarse grained leucogabbros, recrystallization was more complete, plagioclase replacement textures were less localised, and could not be divided into distinct stages. Plagioclase replacement in SMUK samples was not isochemical, and required diffusion of at least Mg and Fe from replacement of mafic phases in the surroundings. Strong compositional gradients in garnet reflect disequilibrium and were controlled by the different diffusion rates of Mg/Fe and Ca, different local chemical environments, and progress of the plagioclase breakdown reaction. The presence of small amounts of hydrous minerals (amphibole, phlogopite and clinozoisite) in local equilibrium in plagioclase domains of most SMUK samples indicates that a small amount of H₂O was present during high pressure metamorphism.     

Geochemistry of cumulus peridotites and gabbros from the Marum ophiolite complex,northern Papua New Guinea

The layered cumulus rocks of the Marum ophiolite complex in northern Papua New Guinea range from highly magnesian dunite, wehrlite, and lherzolite through pyroxenite to norite-gabbro with minor anorthosite and ferronorite-gabbro near the top of the sequence. Most of the cumulates, particularly the gabbroic rocks, are characterised by recrystallised adcumulus textures and all intercumulus melt (mesostasis) has been expelled. Trends in the cumulate sequence from Mg-rich to more Fe-, Ca- and Al-rich compositions are consistent with the formation of the layered sequence by magmatic accumulation from mafic tholeiitic magmas with varying degrees of differentiation. The cumulates are characterised by extremely low levels of ‘incompatible’ elements (K, Ba, Rb, P, Zr, Nb, Hf, Y and REE) at all levels of differentiation. REE patterns are strongly depleted in LREE; HREE abundances range from ≦0.3 chondrites in peridotite to 3 x chondrites in the norite-gabbros. The Marum cumulates resemble low-Ti peridotites and gabbros found in other orthopyroxene-bearing ophiolite sequences. The parent magmas of the Marum cumulates are inferred to have been strongly depleted in ‘incompatible’ trace elements (～ 2,000 ppm Ti, ～20 ppm Zr, 6–9 x chondrites HREE with La_N/Sm_N～0.5). These abundances are lower than found in typical MORB and back-arc basin basalts or their picritic parents. The dissimilarity of trace element abundances of the inferred Marum parent magmas with MORB-type high-alumina olivine tholeiites supports the conclusion drawn previously from the petrology of the cumulates that the parent magmas to the Marum ophiolite were not of MORB composition but resembled the strongly depleted, Ni-rich magnesian olivine-poor tholeiites and quartz tholeiites of the Upper Pillow Lavas of the Troodos ophiolite. The Marum parent magmas are believed to have been formed by shallow melting of refractory peridotite, and are chemically and genetically distinct from the LREE-enriched high-Ti lavas (Tumu River basalts) which occur in faulted contact. The geochemical data do not permit unequivocal assignment of a tectonic environment for the formation of either the Tumu River basalts or the plutonic suite; their juxtaposition results from thrust emplacement.     

Electrical properties of slow-spreading ridge gabbros from ODP Site 735, Southwest Indian Ridge

ODP hole 735B (ODP Legs 118 and 176) samples a block of igneous crust which was accreted at the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge, and was uplifted to seafloor by progressive unroofing along a north-dipping low-angle detachment fault. Physical properties of a set of gabbroic samples from ODP Hole 735B have been measured in the laboratory, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of electrical properties. The electrical formation factor (F) and surface conductivity (C_s) are calculated using the model of Revil and Glover [Geophys. Res. Lett., 25 (1998) 691], from measurements at room pressure, and different salinities of the saturating fluid. The acoustic compressional velocities are in the same range as those previously measured on ODP Leg 118 samples [Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 118 (1991) 227]. The porosity (φ) is low (<1%) in most, fresh samples. The analysis of the porosity structure, characterised by the electrical tortuosity (τ) and the electrical cementation factor (m), reveals that the cored gabbro section is segmented in two parts. The upper part (approximately the upper half) has a nearly constant τ of 15, independent of the degree of alteration of the sample, indicating that the porous network is controlled by primary microstructures, such as grain boundaries, and by extension plastic foliations. Modifications with time and alteration are restricted to increases of φ and m, i.e. a higher variability of the channel thicknesses. In the lower part of the hole, fresh rocks predominate, and the porosity structure is different, with variable τ (3–10), very low m (1.4±SEM) and low φ (0.8±SEM%). This indicates a simpler porous network compared to that at shallower depths, probably dominated by well aligned cracks. The change in porosity structure downhole may be explained several ways, and may integrate the whole history of the crustal section cored at ODP site 735 since accretion, including plastic deformation related to unroofing of the lower crust gabbros along a low-angle detachment fault, cooling, and alteration due to hydrothermal flow at various temperatures. The electrical conduction via electronic processes in metallic minerals is not taken into account in our analysis of the electrical properties; we propose a new constitutive law for electrical conduction, that would account for the conductive mineral matrix.     

Actinolite-hornblende pairs in metamorphosed gabbros,Hidaka mountains,Hokkaido

Actinolite-actinolitic hornblende and actinolitic hornblende-hornblende pairs are described from gabbroic amphibolites and epidote amphibolites formed by dynamic metamorphism during uplift of gabbroic rooks in the Hidaka Metamorphic Belt, Hokkaido. Electron microprobe analyses indicate that coupled substitutions involved in the transition from actinolite to hornblende are essentially those of edenite and tschermakite-ferritschermakite together with smaller amounts of glaucophane-riebeckite, i.e. Al^IV, Al^VI, Fe³⁺, A-site occupancy and Na^M4 increase with replacement of Mg by Fe²⁺+ Mn and Si by Al^IV. During metamorphism the amount of deformation due to shearing has affected the degree of compositional discontinuity in the actinolite-hornblende series and the compositional gap is most pronounced in the epidote amphibolite. The coexisting actinolite-hornblende do not represent an equilibrium pair as textural relations indicate that the actinolitic amphiboles are relics. It is suggested that shearing deformation during uplift has caused an overstepping of the changing physico-chemical conditions of metamorphism so that compositional readjustment of amphiboles was not achieved. Equilibrium-disequilibrium actinolite-hornblende pairs are discussed from other localities where rocks of basaltic composition have been metamorphosed.