(Vârful Cornetu)
High-temperature skarns from Cornet Hill are developed at the contact between a quartz monzonitic – monzodioritic body of Paleocene – Ypresian age and Tithonian limestones. The skarns have undergone a late metasomatic event, and subsequent hydrothermal and weathering overprints.
Ref.:
Marincea, Ş., Bilal, E., Verkaeren, J., Pascal, M.-L., and Fonteilles, M. (2001) Superposed paragenesis in spurrite-, tilleyite- and gehlenite-bearing skarns from Cornet Hill, Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Canadian Mineralogist: 39: 1435-1453.
