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The garnet-clinopyroxene Fe-Mg geothermometer — a reinterpretation of existing experimental data

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Experimental data on the partitioning of Fe2+ and Mg between garnet and clinopyroxene (Råheim and Green 1974; Mori and Green 1978; Ellis and Green 1979) have been used to construct a new expression for the garnet-clinopyroxene geothermometer, including a curvilinear relationship between In Kd and X Ca(ga): T(°C)=((-6173(XCa)2+6731 X Ca+1879 +10 P(kb))/(lnKd+1.393))−273

Application of this geothermometer to a suite of samples of eclogites and associated omphacite-garnet-bearing gneisses from the uppermost allochthon within the North Norwegian Caledonides shows that the calculated temperatures do not vary with rather great variations in the mg number of the garnet (0.17–0.54) and Na content of the clinopyroxene (0.11–0.44). Temperatures below 900° C calculated using the present equation are somewhat lower than those obtained by the method of Powell (1985), the difference being larger for lower temperatures and lower values of X Ca.

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Krogh, E.J. The garnet-clinopyroxene Fe-Mg geothermometer — a reinterpretation of existing experimental data. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 99, 44–48 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399364

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