Chijiadian, Rongcheng Co., Weihai Prefecture, Jiaodong Gold Province, Shandong Province, China

Ref.: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 35, N°6, Sept. 2003, p. 634; http://www.ngu.no/FileArchive/165/2003_055.pdf Geological Survey of Norway / The Alice Wain Memorial West Norway Eclogite Field Symposium / Abstract Volume; Science, Vol. 278, 24 Oct. 1997, pp. 701-707.

Located 10 km SW of Rongcheng.

Dabie Shan-Sulu UHP metamorphic belt.
UHP garnet lherzolite, with included eclogite pods, within quartzo-feldpathic gneisses.

The present garnets result from the destabilization of preexisting majorite.

Mineral List:

	'Apatite'

	Chromite

	Clinohumite var: Titanclinohumite

	Cobaltpentlandite

	Coesite

	Diopside

	Diopside var: Chromian Diopside

	Enstatite

	Forsterite

	'Geikielite-Ilmenite Series'

	Hercynite var: Picotite

	Ilmenite

	'Ilmenite-Pyrophanite Series'

	Magnetite

	'Orthopyroxene Subgroup'

	Pargasite

	Pyrope

	Spinel

18 entries listed. 11 valid minerals.

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