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A metamorphosed pyroxenite at Nero Hill, Central Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

H. W. Haslam
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, 64-78 Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C. 1, formerly Mineral Resources Division, Tanzania
B. G. Walker
Affiliation:
Mineral Resources Division, P.O. Box 903, Dodoma, Tanzania

Summary

The pyroxenite of Nero Hill has been metamorphosed under relatively low water pressure at the centre and higher water pressure at the margins. Thus a central pyroxenite consisting of diopside, hypersthene, oligoclase, garnet, and a little hornblende grades outward into a hornblende-cummingtonite amphibolite.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1971

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