A possible Al-Ti-augite high-pressure cumulate from the Glenelg inlier,NW Scotland |
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Authors: | Ian S. Sanders |
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Affiliation: | Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. |
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Abstract: | Aluminous clinopyroxenite is described from an exposure in the Eastern Lewisian metamorphic complex at Glenelg in NW Scotland. One specimen (S527) has exsolution lamellae of Ca-rich garnet in an omphacitic host, while another specimen (S526) contains Ca-Tschermakitic augite and green hercynitic spinel with reaction rims of garnet. Garnet exsolution is attributed to cooling to about 600°C at eclogite-stabilizing pressure, and is shown to depend on the Ca + Na content of the pyroxene. Pyroxene stoichiometry is questioned. Originally the pyroxenite was probably a high-pressure cumulate which crystallized and cooled within an eclogite-facies environment. Alternatively, it may have formed during an early phase of very high-grade metamorphism. |
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