DiopsideCascade Slide, Cascade Mountain, Keene, Essex Co., New York, USA
Marble xenolith in anorthosite.
References
J.W. Valley and E.J. Essene (1980) Akermanite in the Cascade Slide Xenolith and Its Significance for Regional Metamorphism in the Adirondacks. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 74, 143-152 (1980)
Valley, J.W. and Essene, E.J. (1979) Vesuvianite, akermanite, monticellite and wollastonite equlibria and high X H2O/CO2 at Cascade slide, Mt Marcy Quad, Adirondack Mts. EOS: 60: 423.
Grew, E.S., Yates, M.G., Adams, P., Kirkby, R., and Wiedenbeck, M. (1999) Harkerite from the Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California and Cascade Slide, Adirondack Mouintains, New York: A contrast in metamorphic pressure. Canadian Mineralogist: 37: 277-296.
American Mineralogist, Volume 63, pages 991-999, 1978
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