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The Genesis of Oligoclase in Certain Schists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. J. Turner
F. J. Turner
Affiliation:
Otago University, New Zealand.
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The mineralogical changes in green schists and related quartzofelspathic schists of sedimentary origin are discussed, and the following conclusions are reached as to the conditions of formation of oligoclase in these rocks:—

(1) Oligoclase normally appears as a product of dynamothermal metamorphism at relatively high grades such as prevail in the zones of almandine and perhaps kyanite. It is accompanied either by deeply-coloured hornblende, hornblende and biotite, or biotite and muscovite, according to the chemical composition of the rocks in which it occurs.

(2) Sodic oligoclase containing 10 per cent to 15 per cent of anorthite may occur with pale aluminous hornblende in green schists lying within the more strongly metamorphosed portion of the chlorite zone. The rocks in question are low in potash and have been formed by reconstitution, at a higher grade, of chlorite-epidotealbite-schists containing calcite. This oligoclase-hornblende association is not to be confused with the actinolite-epidote-albite-chlorite assemblage which is formed at any grade within the zone of chlorite, by direct reconstitution of basic igneous rocks without change in bulk composition and in the absence of CO2. A slight modification of Tilley’s subdivision of the green schist facies of Eskola is therefore introduced.

(3) A zone of oligoclase representing a grade of metamorphism higher than that attained in the biotite zone, may be recognized for quartzo-felspathic schists of appropriate composition and for many green schists, in areas of progressive regional metamorphism. In the latter case, blue-green hornblende often accompanied by biotite is also present.

(4) Oligoclase or more calcic plagioclase and deeply-coloured hornblende form readily during purely thermal metamorphism of only medium grade in the absence of stress. This accounts for the irregular distribution of both these minerals in districts where purely thermal and regional metamorphism have both occurred during the same period of orogeny.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 70 , Issue 12 , December 1933 , pp. 529 - 541
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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