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Akeyazhi River valley, Yili Hasake (Ili Kazakh) Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang (Xinjiang-Uygur) Autonomous Region, China

Outcrops of jadeite-bearing eclogites and associated blueschists, hosted in greenschist facies rocks.

Ref.:
- Gao Jiu, Klemd, R., Zhang Lifei, Wang Su, and Xiao Xiong (1999): P–T path of high-pressure/low-temperature rocks and tectonic implications in the western Tianshan Mountains, NW China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 17(6), 621-636.
- Gao Jun, Liu Shengwei, and Zhang Lifei (2000): The 40Ar/39Ar age record of formation and uplift of the blueschists and eclogites in the western Tianshan Mountains. Chinese Science Bulletin 45(11), 1047-1052.
- Jun Gao and Klemd, R. (2001): Primary fluids entrapped at blueschist to eclogite transition: evidence from the Tianshan meta-subduction complex in northwestern China. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 142(1), 1-14.
- Su, W., Gao, J., Klemd, R., and Xiong, X. (2005): Water in Omphacite of eclogite from the southern Tianshan. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft 150.
- Wei Lin and Masaki Enami (2006): Prograde pressure-temperature path of jadeite-bearing eclogites and associated high-pressure/low-temperature rocks from western Tianshan, northwest China. Island Arc 15(4), 483-502.





Mineral List:
  • Albite
  • Almandine
  • 'Apatite'
  • Barroisite
  • Calcite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Clinozoisite
  • Crossite
  • Epidote
  • Ferroglaucophane
  • Glaucophane
  • Ilmenite
  • Jadeite
  • Muscovite
  • Omphacite
  • Paragonite
  • Pargasite
  • Quartz
  • Rutile
  • Taramite
  • Titanite
  • Winchite
  • Zircon
  • Zoisite


    24 entries listed. 21 valid minerals.

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