Garnet peridotite complex, hosted within an eclogite-bearing quartzofeldspathic gneiss terrane. The garnet peridotite consists mainly of garnet lherzolite and minor inter-layered dunite. The complex is cross-cut by several garnet pyroxenite dikes.
Located about 20 km south of Da Qaidam.
References
- Yang Jingsui, Xu Zhiqin, Zhang Jianxin, Song Shuguang, Wu Cailai, Shi Rendeng, Li Haibing, Liou, J.G., Ernst, G., and Shigenori Maruyama (2001): An early Paleozoic Coesite-bearing HP-UHP metamorphic belt on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau. UHPM Workshop at Waseda University, AD02, 290-293.
- Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, and Yaoling Niu (2004): Ultra-deep origin of garnet peridotite from the North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure belt, Northern Tibetan Plateau, NW China. American Mineralogist 89, 1330-1336.
- Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Geochronology of diamond-bearing zircons from garnet peridotite in the North Qaidam UHPM belt, Northern Tibetan Plateau: A record of complex histories from oceanic lithosphere subduction to continental collision. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.
- Yanling Tang (2005): Non-metallic deposits of Xinjiang, China [Zhongguo Xinjiang Fei Jinshu Kuangchuang]. Geological Publishing House (Beijing), 289 pp. (in Chinese)
- Mattinson, C.G., Wooden, J.L., Liou, J.G., Bird, D.K., and Wu, C.L. (2006): Age and duration of eclogite-facies metamorphism, North Qaidam HP/UHP terrane, Western China. American Journal of Science 306, 683-711.
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