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Ninety-seven mineral phases consisting of ten chloritoids, fifteen epidotes, sixteen garnets, four sphenes, seven rutiles, seven pyroxenes, thirteen blue amphiboles, two green amphiboles, eleven phengites, two paragonites, a mariposite, seven chlorites, and two specimens of albite were obtained from the metamorphic rocks of Île de Groix, and their chemical, physical, optical and X-ray properties determined. The chloritoids are all optically positive, monoclinic polymorphs with large 2V, moderate refractive indices and characterized by high densities. Their fluorine contents have been used to propose a new upper limit for OH→F substitution in the chloritoid structure, suggesting that partial pressure of fluorine might modify the stability of chloritoids from that determined in pure H2O. The epidotes belong to the Al-Fe epidote series and are “epidote” sensu stricto. The almandine-rich garnets and the chloromelanites are metastable relics in the glaucophane schists. The grossular contents of the calcareous schist garnets are believed to have become depressed under high CO2 pressure and the low Tschermak's contents of the pyroxenes are to be explained by equilibria involving epidote at high \(P_{{\text{H}}_{\text{2}} {\text{O}}} \) and low temperature when the Tschermak's components will break down to epidote group minerals. The sphenes contain appreciable amounts of combined water, fluorine substituting for oxygen and aluminium substituting for silicon and titanium. The presence of H3O+ is suspected in a specimen of blue amphibole. The barroisite has a composition between glaucophane and hornblende. On account of its high Fe3+ content it is believed to have formed under higher P O 2 than the blue amphiboles. The paragonites which occur in the ohloritoid veins are unstable in the potassium-rich aluminous schists. The phengites show a tendency towards sericitic composition due to post-glaucophanisation readjustments under the lower pressure conditions of the greenschist facies. Some of the Fe3+ contents of the chlorites are interpreted as due to oxidation of ferrous iron, e.g. 2 [Fe(OH)2]→2FeOOH + H2. The minerals show strong chemical control of the host rock and their Mn contents are directly related to those of the minerals from which they have evolved through retrogression.
Chloritoids and epidotes that are not associated with garnets contain higher amounts of manganese; similarly, the two blue amphiboles with the highest Fe∶Mg ratios were obtained from rocks in which garnet has not appeared. It is therefore believed that ottrelite and piemontite would be stable only at the lowest subfacies of the greenschist facies. Also, the ironrich amphiboles must have evolved from low-grade iron-aluminium chlorites, since on the appearance of garnet in a schist iron-aluminium chlorites react with quartz to give almandine and Mg-rich chlorites. The Fe2+∶Mg ratios of the blue amphiboles therefore reflect the grade of the original schist in which the minerals formed.
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Makanjuola, A.A., Howie, R.A. The mineralogy of the glaucophane schists and associated rocks from Île de Groix, Brittany, France. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 35, 83–118 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370922
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