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Epidotes of the Borrowdale Volcanic rocks of central Borrowdale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

R. G. J. Strens
R. G. J. Strens*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Geology, University of California, Berkeley 4, California
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Summary

Epidote and clinozoisite are widely distributed in the andesitic lavas and tuffs of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series. Four main types of occurrence may be distinguished, namely quartz-epidote vein fillings; ‘Shap type’ veins, bordered by pink reaction zones rich in SiO2, Na2O, and K2O; autometasomatized lavas and tuffs; and tuffs subjected to alkali metasomatism. Epidote alone formed in the quartz-epidote veins; clinozoisite is found with epidote in the other types of occurrence.

Epidote and clinozoisite formed in vesicles at pressures of 10–280 kg/cm2, at temperatures of 300–550° C; epidote associated with pre-Bala mineral veins formed in the range 130–550° C at 1000 kg/cm2; epidote around the Caledonian granites probably formed up to 600° C at about 2000 kg/cm2. Clinozoisite crystallized together with epidote in the vesicles, demonstrating a gap in the clinozoisite-epidote solid solution series. Early formed epidote in vesicles is more strongly coloured than late epidote, although the compositions of the earliest and latest fractions are identical.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 33 , Issue 265 , June 1964 , pp. 868 - 886
Copyright
Copyright © 1964, The Mineralogical Society

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