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A New Occurrence of Sapphirine and Related Anthophyllite from Central Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. R. Hudson  and
Allan F. Wilson
D. R. Hudson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
Allan F. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
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Abstract

Phlogopite-spinel-bronzite rocks, in which aggregates of bronzite and sapphirine appear to be pseudomorphs of aluminous anthophyllite, occur in a restricted low-granulite terrain in the Strangways Range, central Australia. The form of the postulated reaction is gedrite + ΔH = enstatite + sapphirine + silica + escaping “ water ”.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 103 , Issue 4 , August 1966 , pp. 293 - 298
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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