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Boron-free kornerupine from the Reynolds Range, Arunta Block, central Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

J. K. Vry
J. K. Vry*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
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Abstract

Nearly boron-free kornerupine is locally abundant in pods or lenses of coarse-grained, non-foliated, Mg- and Al-rich rocks that occur at high metamorphic grades in early Proterozoic metapelitic rocks from the Reynolds Range, Northern Territory, Australia. This is the third reported occurrence of boron-free kornerupine worldwide. The samples consist almost entirely of coarse-grained kornerupine and its breakdown products sapphirine, cordierite, and gedrite or orthopyroxene. The kornerupine contains only 0.45 wt.% B2O3, corresponding to 0.098 B atoms per 22 (O, OH), and closely approximates 11:10:11 in terms of molar ratios of (MgO + FeOtotal):Al2O3:SiO2, with XMg = Mg/(Mg + Fetotal) = 0.874. The unusual textures and bulk compositions of the rocks in the pods are interpreted to have resulted from metasomatism and high-grade metamorphism (750 to 800° and ∼ 4.5 kbar) of precursors that may have included sedimentary Mg-rich clays. Rocks containing boron-poor, and relatively boronrich kornerupine (2.18 wt.% B2O3; XMg = 0.892) are separated in outcrop by as little as 10 m of the foliated cordierite-quartzite country rock and other rock types, suggesting that the compositions or amounts of the metasomatic fluids varied on a local scale.

Keywords

kornerupineboronmetapeliteReynolds RangeAustralia
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Mineralogy
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 58 , Issue 390 , March 1994 , pp. 27 - 37
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1994

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