Metabasites

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Metabasites

 

metamorphic rocks formed as a result of the metamorphism of basic igneous rocks. The metabasites include metamorphosed diabases, gabbros, diorites, and sometimes schists and amphibolites.

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They include metabasites, and sericite, chlorite and graphite schists assigned to the Cambrian-Silurian (Milewicz and Frackiewicz, 1983).
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Santana De Zamora, "Reaction pathways and reaction progress for the smectite-to-chlorite transformation: evidence from hydrothermally altered metabasites," Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol.
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Paleoseismological evidence of Holocene activity of the Los Tollos Fault (Murcia, SE Spain): a lately formed Quaternary tectonic feature of the Eastern Betic Shear Zone
Hiroi, "Magmatic evolution and tectonic setting of metabasites from Lutzow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica," in Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica: A Key to the East-West Gondwana Connection, M.
Crustal evolution of a paleozoic intra-oceanic island-arc-back-arc basin system constrained by the geochemistry and geochronology of the Yakuno ophiolite, Southwest Japan
Petrogenetic significance of orthopyroxene-free garnet + clinopyroxene + plagioclase [+ or -] quartz-bearing metabasites with respect to the amphibolite and granulite facies, Journal of Metamorphic Geology.
Pressure-temperature path of Arquia Group rocks (NW Colombia): a petrographic analysis from mineral assemblages
The host rocks are a series of sheared and altered shales, siltstones and metabasites within the Mitakoodi Quarzites of the Proterozoic Malbon Group.
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Parageneses of Ordoviclan sub-greenschist to greenschist facies metabasites from Wales, U.K.
Very low- and low-grade metamorphism of mafic volcanic rocks of the Mira terrane (Avalonia), southeastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
In western Estonia, metabasites of the amphibolite facies dominate.
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