Minéraux serpentineux extraits de péridotites serpentinisées des Alpes Occidentales

Complete physical and chemical data presented concern serpentine minerals choosen from epizonal to non metamorphic domains. It is tried to correlate well-studied serpentine minerals, generally coming from particular outcrops with the rock-forming ones known only through the microscope.It appears that ribbons filling serpentine veins in a serpentinized dunite, the whole mesh-structure of a non metamorphic serpentine, and bastite lamellae are made of lizardite. Antigorite, only serpentine mineral present in metamorphic domains, shows no significative difference between high-pressure facies (glaucophane schist) and low-pressure facies (green-schist). The data allow a better understanding of the serpentinization process. The geochemically antinomic behaviour of iron and magnesium is emphasized.