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Talc-kyanite-quartz schists and other high-pressure assemblages from Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

S. Vrána  and
M. W. C. Barr
S. Vrána
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Department, Lusaka, Zambia
M. W. C. Barr
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Department, Lusaka, Zambia
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Summary

Talc-kyanite-quartz schists, Mg-chlorite-kyanite-quartz schists, kyanite gedritites, and kyanite-bronzite gedritites occur in the Central Province of Zambia. Experimental work in the system MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O suggests that these assemblages formed at pressures in excess of 10 kb.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 38 , Issue 299 , September 1972 , pp. 837 - 846
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1972

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Footnotes

1

Occasional Paper No. 48, published by permission of the Director, Geological Survey of Zambia.

2

Present address: Dept. of Earth Sciences, The University, Leeds.

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