Lüliangshan complex, North Qaidam UHP Terrane, Haixi Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, China

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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.

Ref.:
- 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.
- 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.

Mineral List:

'Amphibole Group'

Reference:

[Yang Jingsui, Xu Zhiqin, Zhang Jianxin, Song Shuguang, Wu Cailai, Shi Rendeng, Li Haibing, Liou, J.G., Ernst, G., and Shigenori Maruyama (2001): UHPM Workshop at Waseda University, AD02, 290-293.]

'Chlorite Group'

Reference:

[Yang Jingsui, Xu Zhiqin, Zhang Jianxin, Song Shuguang, Wu Cailai, Shi Rendeng, Li Haibing, Liou, J.G., Ernst, G., and Shigenori Maruyama (2001): UHPM Workshop at Waseda University, AD02, 290-293.]

Chromite

FeCr

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

'Clinopyroxene Subgroup'

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

Diamond

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

Enstatite

[SiO

]

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, and Yaoling Niu (2004): American Mineralogist 89, 1330-1336.]

Forsterite

[SiO

]

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, and Yaoling Niu (2004): American Mineralogist 89, 1330-1336.]

Graphite

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

Ilmenite

TiO

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

'Kelyphite'

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

'Orthopyroxene Subgroup'

Reference:

[- Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, and Yaoling Niu (2004): American Mineralogist 89, 1330-1336.]

Phlogopite

KMg

[(OH,F)

|AlSi

]

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

Pyrope

[SiO

]

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

Rutile

TiO

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

Spinel
var: Chromspinel

Mg(Al,Cr

)

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

Zircon

Zr[SiO

]

Reference:

[Shuguang Song, Lifei Zhang, Yaoling Niu, Li Su, Ping Jian, Dunyi Liu (2005): Earth and Planetary Science Letters 234, 99-118.]

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