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A garnet peridotite and a garnet-amphibole pyroxenite from South Harris, Outer Hebrides, and their bearing on the South Harris eclogite facies status

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

A. Livingstone
A. Livingstone*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Gray's Inn Rd., London W.C.1.
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Summary

A garnet-olivine metaperidotite and a garnet-amphibole pyroxenite are described. Chemical analyses are presented for six rocks and optical properties and chemical analyses are tabulated for clinopyroxene, almandine-pyrope garnet, and hastingsitie amphibole from the garnet-amphibole pyroxenite. A possible origin for the garnet peridotite and chemically similar granulite facies ultramafic rocks is suggested. The eclogite facies in South Harris is reinstated in the light of the data presented.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 36 , Issue 279 , September 1967 , pp. 380 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1967

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