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Peridotite outcrops, Etang de Lherz, Col d'Agnès, Le Port, Massat, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France

Affleurements de péridotite, Etang de Lherz, Col d'Agnès, Le Port, Massat, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France

HT peridotites : Spinel lherzolite and harzburgite, layered with parallel bands of pyroxenite (upper mantle cumulate or crystal segregation due to flow crystallization).
These serpentinites are emplaced along the North Pyrenean fault.
They show a deformation foliation parallel to pyroxenite layering.
Location in the uppermost mantle/dismembered lithosphere above an asthenosphere diapir, during the Albian.

Mineral List

Antigorite
'Apatite'
Chromite
Diopside
var: Chromian Diopside

Enstatite
Hercynite
var: Picotite

Magnetite
'Olivine'
Pentlandite
Pyrrhotite
var: Nickeloan Pyrrhotite

Spinel


11 entries listed. 6 valid minerals.

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