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A note on low-grade contact metamorphism—southwestern Brewster County, Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Marvin J. Droddy  and
John C. Butler
Marvin J. Droddy
Affiliation:
Bendix Field Engineering Corporation, Geology Division, Austin Texas
John C. Butler
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Houston, Houston Texas 77004
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Summary

Intrusion of the Bee Mountain soda microsyenite plug in southwestern Brewster County, Texas established conditions of low grade contact metamorphism in the upper Cretaceous Boquillas and Pen Formation sedimentary rocks. It is unlikely that load pressure exceeded 330 bars or that temperatures exceeded 470 °C at the intrusive contact. Thermally unaltered parent materials predominantly contain ortho- and allochemical low-magnesium calcite, silt-sized quartz, calcium montmorillonite, kaolinite, and volcanic glass. Incipient metamorphism is marked by the appearance of xanthophyllite followed by prehnite formed at the expense of xanthophyllite and montmorillonite. Near the soda microsyenite contact prehnite has decomposed to yield grossular and epidote group minerals, and apophyllite has replaced calcite where fluorine-bearing solutions have reacted with the parent material. Textural modifications include the recrystallization of calcite, redistribution of some of the mineral phases, and decreased friability in the marly layers.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 43 , Issue 328 , December 1979 , pp. 479 - 482
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1979

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