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The Clinopyroxene-hornblende Equilibrium in Thermal Metamorphism: Some Data from Carlingford, Eire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. T. Harry
W. T. Harry
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, Dundee.
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Abstract

In a Tertiary ring complex at Carlingford, Eire, a large mass of eucrite is cut by porphyritic cone-sheets. A major granophyre intrusion later than the cone-sheets alters the clinopyroxene of the sheets to hornblende whilst the clinopyroxene of the adjacent eucrite remains unaltered. By elimination of several possibilities it is shown that the different behaviour of the two pyroxenes reflects their thermal stabilities.

It is argued that the two pyroxenes represent a pyroxene trend of crystallization and that thermal metamorphism attacked them in the reverse order of their magmatic crystallization. Importance is attached to extensive replacement of Ca′ by Fe′ in the cone-sheet pyroxene as a factor of instability.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , February 1954 , pp. 79 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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