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While discussing the various facies and subfacies, the changes in mineral assemblages caused by the various mineral reactions have been stressed. Mineral reactions are also responsible for changes in the chemical compositions of individual minerals that are members of solid solution series. It has already been pointed out that the iron-rich chlorites are progressively impoverished in iron to yield finally a magnesian chlorite with prograde greenschist facies metamorphism. Similar changes in chemical composition of many other minerals contingent on rising metamorphic grade have lately been established. Attention is drawn to this new field of mineralogical research because of its great importance in understanding the genesis of metamorphic rocks.
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Winkler, H.G.F. (1967). Change of Chemical Composition of Minerals with Progressive Metamorphism. In: Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00866-9_13
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