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