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Omphacite from
Gateway Hills Metamorphic Complex, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:Omphacite
Formula:(NaaCabFec2+Mgd)(AleFef3+Feg2+Mgh)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Omphacite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gateway Hills Metamorphic Complex, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1583861
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1583861:0
GUID (UUID V4):91d32322-cdc8-42eb-94e4-d6c9c10aacf3
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Coesite in eclogites of the Lanterman Range (Antarctica): Evidence from textural and Raman studies BARBARA...of mafic eclogites from the Lanterman Range (Antarctica). In one of the quartz pseudomorphs the presence...evidence for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in Antarctica which was part of the Gondwana supercontinent...eclogites, Raman spectroscopy, Lanterman Range, Antarctica. Introduction Ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism...garnet, from several localities in high-pressure metamorphic belts, such as the Western Gneiss Belt of Norway
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metamorphism at the Lanterman Range (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica) R. PALMERI 1*, F.M. TALARICO 2 and C...UniversitaĢ€ di Siena, Siena, Italy Northern Victoria Land is a key area for the Ross Orogenā€”a Palaeozoic...is exposed at the Lanterman Range (northern Victoria Land), at the boundary between two main lithotectonic...ultramaļ¬c and felsic host rocks underwent a common metamorphic evolution with an UHP eclogiteā€“facies stage ...world and represents the only known locality in Antarctica and along the entire palaeo-Paciļ¬c margin of
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eclogite-facies metamorphism in northern Victoria Land (Antarctica): Implications for the geodynamics of...eclogite-facies metamorphism in northern Victoria Land (Antarctica): Implications for the geodynamics of...eclogite-facies metamorphism in northern Victoria Land (Antarctica): implications for the geodynamics...Highlights ā€¢ Medium-grained eclogites from northern Victoria Land record prograde evolution ā€¢ Zircon petrochronology...ongoing subduction ABSTRACT Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, plays a key role in any geodynamic reconstructions
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gneisses and quarzites from the Lanterman Range, Antarctica ROSARIA PALMERI1,*, BARBARA GHIRIBELLI1, FRANCO...Orogen of the Lanterman Range (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica) are in some areas characterized by interlayering...indicate that the two rock-types underwent a common metamorphic evolution. Contrary to many other UHP felsic...HP stage, the studied rocks have recorded a metamorphic history ranging from initial prograde amphibolite...along the main foliation. The reconstructed metamorphic evolution, involves a steep prograde and retrograde
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J. metamorphic Geol., 2009, 27, 685ā€“705 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00843.x Pressure-induced incipient...and transition to coesite in an eclogite from Antarctica: a first record and some consequences R. PALMERI...garnet and omphacite from various eclogite samples from the Lanterman Range (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)...INTRODUCTION The ļ¬rst discoveries of coesite in metamorphic rocks, as inclusions in pyrope from continental...western Alps (Chopin, 1984), and soon after in the omphacite of a Caledonian eclogite (Smith, 1984), changed
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eclogites of the Lanterman Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica Taehwan Kim1, Yoonsup Kim2,*, Moonsup...eclogites from the Lanterman Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, which are relatively uncommon but free...prograde assemblages (M1) consist of garnet + omphacite + barroisite/Mg-pargasite + epidote + phengite...quartz; and subsequent M2 assemblages of garnet + omphacite + barroisite + phengite + rutile Ā± quartz. The...moderately dark core. Eclogitic phases such as garnet, omphacite, epidote, and rutile are present as fine-grained
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GR Focus Review High-pressure metamorphism in Antarctica from the Proterozoic to the Cenozoic: A review...2012 Available online 8 August 2012 Keywords: Antarctica Eclogite Garnet peridotite Blueschist-facies...b s t r a c t The survey of high-P metamorphic rocks in Antarctica can help clarify the geodynamic evolution...along the eastern margin of the ā€˜Mawson blockā€™ (e.g., in the Nimrod Glacier region and George V Land). Some...(George V Land; Eyre Peninsula in Australia). Stillwell (1918) described rocks from George V Land containing
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in the central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica: Extending the record of early Palaeozoic high-pressure...high-pressure metamorphism along the eastern Gondwanan margin Dillon A. Brown, Martin Hand, Laura J. Morrissey...in the central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica: Extending the record of early Palaeozoic high-pressure...high-pressure metamorphism along the eastern Gondwanan margin, LITHOS (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j...in the central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica: extending the record of early Palaeozoic high-pressure
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orogens may mask an earlier, higher-pressure metamorphic history. We suspect that coesite-bearing UHP...magmatism occurred at 30 to 15 Ma. The Himalayan metamorphic belt was domally uplifted and the mountain-building...AL. FIG. 1. P-T regimes assigned to various metamorphic types: (1) ultrahigh-P; (2) high-P; and (3) low-P...tonalite are shown. P-T boundaries of various metamorphic facies [granulite, amphibolite, epidote amphibolite...stabilities of coesite and other UHP minerals in metamorphic regime require abnormally low geothermal gradients
 
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