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Blueschist and Eclogite Facies<br />

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The blueschist facies is characterized in metabasites by<br />

the presence of a sodic blue amphibole stable only at high<br />

pressures (usually glaucophane, but crossite or riebeckite<br />

is possible)<br />

<br />

The association of glaucophane + lawsonite is diagnostic.<br />

Albite breaks down at high pressure by reaction to jadeitic<br />

pyroxene + quartz:<br />

NaAlSi 3 O 8 = NaAlSi 2 O 6 + SiO 2 (reaction 25-3)<br />

Ab<br />

Jd<br />

Qtz

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