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The morphology and internal structure of individual olivine grains from ultramafic rocks in the Guli and Gal’moenan dunite massifs differing in origin are considered. To restore the ontogeny of mineral aggregates, traces of elastic deformation retained in mineral grains have been used. Comparison of anatomy of olivine grains from these two massifs showed that the mechanism of accommodation of rocks to changing geological settings is expressed as the response of the mineral aggregate structure and variation in the anatomy of individual mineral grains. At the level of individual grains, this is annihilation of older defects and origination of younger dislocations; refinement of the crystal lattice; exsolution; formation and transformation of new mineral phases; and creep and migration of subboundaries within grains. At the aggregate level, this is rotation and migration creep of the internal boundaries of rock; formation of new boundaries of mineral intergrowths; reorientation of boundaries; and variation in their extent, density, and grain dimensions. The prehistory of massifs controls the manifestation and abundance of various elastic deformations and related types of recrystallization of olivine grain boundaries and subboundaries in aggregates. New conditions and accommodation of mineral aggregates to these conditions have instigated specific schemes of recrystallization, which bear information on the history of rocks and their massifs.
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Original Russian Text © R.L. Brodskaya, I.V. Bilskaya, B.A. Markovsky, 2009, published in Zapiski RMO (Proceedings of the Russian Mineralogical Society), 2009, No. 5, pp. 19–31.
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Brodskaya, R.L., Bilskaya, I.V. & Markovsky, B.A. Ontogenetic analysis of individual olivine grains in ultramafic rocks. Geol. Ore Deposits 52, 566–573 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701510070056
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