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Hess Deep, East Pacific Rise, Pacific Ocean

Ultramafic complex, consisting mainly of harzburgite, dunite, troctolite and olivine gabbro. Small chromitite pods occur in dunite.



References:
- Matsukage, K., and Arai, S. (1998): Jadeite, albite and nepheline as inclusions in spinel of chromitite from Hess Deep, equatorial Pacific: their genesis and implications for serpentinite diapir formation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 131, 111-122.





Mineral List:
Albite
'Chlorite Group'
Diopside
Enstatite
Forsterite
'Grossular-Hibschite Series'
Jadeite
Nepheline
Pargasite
Phlogopite
Spinel
var: Chromspinel



11 entries listed. 8 valid minerals.

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