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Table T8. Summary of alteration minerals and conditions of formation.

  Metamorphic minerals
800°-400°C

400°-150°C

150°-0°C
Diopside Secondary plagioclase Brown amphibole Dark green amphibole Talc Magnetite

Green amphibole Chlorite Oxides Quartz Albite Titanite Epidote Prehnite Sulfide

Zeolite Green smectite Sulfide Orange smectite Carbonate Hematite Oxyhydroxides

























Olivine


o O O O

o o o





o


O O o o o o
Clinopyroxene O

O O o o

O O o








o o o o o o
Orthopyroxene


o O o o

O o o








o o o o o

Plagioclase

O





o o

o o

o o


o O





Hornblende



O

o

O ? o








O o



?
Oxides





?


?



o




































Notes: Symbols = presence of secondary mineral phases. O = secondary minerals that commonly replace a primary phase; o = less common replacement. ? = secondary minerals after primary phases that were difficult to identify in hand specimen.

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