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The Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt, which makes up oceanic crust, goes through ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic process and transforms to eclogite at depth ~60 km in the subduction zones. [9] The major mineral components of eclogite include omphacite, garnet and high-pressure silica phases ( coesite and stishovite ). [ 8 ]
Garnet and cordierite do not reach complete equilibrium when discovered on the surface, leaving a print of the past P-T environments. The Pressure-Temperature-time path (P-T-t path) is a record of the pressure and temperature (P-T) conditions that a rock experienced in a metamorphic cycle from burial and heating to uplift and exhumation to the ...
The garnet biotite thermometer correlates temperature with the partitioning of Fe and Mg in coinciding garnet and biotite. [1] The garnet-biotite thermometer has been "calibrated" many times since the 1970s by both experimental and empirical methods, however Ferry and Spear's 1978 experimental calibration study [ 2 ] is reported thoroughly and ...
Eclogites are defined as bi-mineralic, broadly basaltic rocks which have been classified into Groups A, B and C based on the chemistry of their primary mineral phases, garnet and clinopyroxene. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The classification distinguishes each group based on the jadeite content of clinopyroxene and pyrope in garnet. [ 4 ]
Tsavorite or tsavolite is a variety of the garnet group species grossular, a calcium-aluminium garnet with the formula Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12. [2] Trace amounts of vanadium or chromium provide the green color.
Rhodolite is a varietal name for rose-pink to red mineral pyrope, a species in the garnet group. It was first described from Cowee Valley , Macon County , North Carolina . [ 2 ] The name is derived from the Greek "rhodon" for "rose-like", in common with other pink mineral types (such as rhodochrosite , rhodonite ).
Almandine (/ ˈ æ l m ən d ɪ n /), also known as almandite, is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor. Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red color, inclining to ...
Uvarovite is a chromium-bearing garnet group species with the formula: Ca 3 Cr 2 (Si O 4) 3. It was discovered in 1832 by Germain Henri Hess who named it after Count Sergei Uvarov (1765–1855), a Russian statesman and amateur mineral collector. [2] It is classified in the ugrandite group alongside the other calcium-bearing garnets andradite ...