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Metabasites are mineralogically sensitive to variations in temperature and pressure. This is the reason why Eskola (1920, 1939) based his definitions of individual metamorphic facies on the mineral assemblages of metabasites. The main characteristics are synoptically shown in table 8A–1. The mineralogical sensitivity is especially great under high rock-pressures, as exemplified by the formation of glaucophane schist and eclogite.
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© 1965 Akiho Miyashiro
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Miyashiro, A. (1965). Metabasites: Diversity in Progressive Regional Metamorphism. In: Metamorphism and Metamorphic Belts. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6836-6_10
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