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R-mode technique factor analysis, performed on as many as 186 garnet and 103 omphacite samples from eclogites of known geological setting, confirms the three-group partition given by Smulikowski (1964, 1965) and Coleman et al. (1965), and lends support to the interpretation of eclogites as rocks formed under a wide range of P-T conditions both in the metamorphic and in the igneous realm.
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Mottana, A., Sutterlin, P.G. & May, R.W. Factor analysis of omphacites and garnets: A contribution to the geochemical classification of eclogites. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 31, 238–250 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399653
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