Chapter 8: Major Elements - Faculty web pages
Chapter 8: Major Elements - Faculty web pages
Chapter 8: Major Elements - Faculty web pages
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Blueschist and Eclogite Facies<br />
<br />
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