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Lawsonite-bearing eclogitic metabasites in the Cazadero area, northern California

Lawsonit-führende eklogitische Metabasite im Gebiet um Cazadero, Nordkalifornien

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In the Cazadero area, northern California, Lawsonite-bearing eclogitic metabasites occur in association with glaucophane schists. Lawsonite-bearing eclogitic metabasites are coarse-grained, and characteristically lack albite. Representative mineral assemblages are; (1) garnet + omphacite + Lawsonite + epidote + glaucophane + chlorite + quartz, (2) garnet -F- omphacite + Lawsonite + pumpellyite + glaucophane + actinolite + quartz, (3) garnet + omphacite + Lawsonite + pumpellyite + epidote + glaucophane + quartz. They can be represented on an A12O3-Fe2O3-MgO-Na2O diagram in which all minerals are projected from quartz, Lawsonite, almandine garnet, and H2O-predominant fluid. On the basis of the garnet-clinopyroxene geothermometry and phase relations, the metamorphic conditions for the formation of Lawsonite-bearing eclogitic metabasites are estimated at 360-445 °C and more than 9 ± 1 kbar. Lawsonite-bearing eclogitic metabasites formed near the univariant curve albite = jadeite +quartz. A petrogenetic grid constructed by Schreinemakers' method shows that the Lawsonite-bearing eclogitic metabasites in the Cazadero area formed under transitional P-T conditions between those of the garnet-bearing glaucophane schists in New Caledonia and lawsonitebearing eclogitic metabasites in Corsica.

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Im Gebiet um Cazadero, Nordkalifornien, kommen Lawsonit-führende eklogitische Metabasite in Assoziation mit Glaukophanschiefern vor. Den grobkörnigen Lawsonitführenden Metabasiten fehlt charakteristischerweise Albit. Repräsentative Mineralparagenesen sind: (1) Granat + Omphacit + Lawsonit + Epidot + Glaukophan + Chlorit + Quarz, (2) Granat + Omphacit + Lawsonit + Pumpellyit + Glaukophan + Aktinolith + Quarz, (3) Granat + Omphacit +Lawsonit + Pumpellyit + Epidot + Glaukophan + Quarz. Sie lassen sich in einem A12O3-Fe2O3-MgO-Na2O Diagramm, in dem alle Minerale von Quarz, Lawsonit, Almandin-reichem Granat und einem H2O-dominierten Fluid projiziert werden, darstellen. Die Metamorphosebedingungen der Lawsonitführenden eklogitischen Metabasite werden auf Grund von Granat-Klinopyroxenthermometrie und der Phasenbeziehungen mit 360-445°C und mehr als 9 ± 1 kbar abgeschätzt. Die Lawsonit-führenden eklogitischen Metabasite bildeten sich nahe der univarianten Reaktion Albit = Jadeit +Quarz. Ein petrogenetisches Netz, konstruiert nach der Schreinemakers Methode, zeigt, daß die P-T Bedingungen der Lawsonitführenden eklogitischen Metabasite im Gebiet von Cazadero im übergangsbereich zwischen jenen von Granat-führenden Glaukophanschiefern in Neukaledonien und Lawsonit-führenden eklogitischen Metabasiten in Korsika liegen.

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Shibakusa, H., Maekawa, H. Lawsonite-bearing eclogitic metabasites in the Cazadero area, northern California. Mineralogy and Petrology 61, 163–180 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01172482

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