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A former association of enstatite and kyanite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. A. Chinner  and
T. R. Sweatman
G. A. Chinner
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge
T. R. Sweatman
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge
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Summary

An enstatite-cordierite-sillimanite-quartz rock from a pyroxenegranulite facies terrain in southern Rhodesia gives evidence of at least two stages of recrystallization : an early, high-pressure recrystallization to form the assemblage enstatite-kyanite-quartz, and a later, ‘retrogressive’ recrystallization during which kyanite inverted to sillimanite, and cordierite was formed by reaction. The rock itself has ratios of R2+ : Al : Si that are virtually those of cordierite ; the recent data of Schreyer (1967) may thus be applied to the occurrence. The early kyanite-enstatite recrystallization occurred under pressures in excess of 10 kb, corresponding to depths greater than those of the continental Moho.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 284 , December 1968 , pp. 1052 - 1060
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1968

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