Metagabbro from the Guil Valley, Queyras, Briançon, Hautes-Alpes, France.
by Sophie Graul, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia and France
Metagabbro from the Guil Valley, Queyras, Briançon, Hautes-Alpes, France.
Association of plagioclase (white with greenish hues), pyroxene, chlorite, actinote and glaucophane.
Some oxides have been observed (mainly magnetite on XRD.
During the retrograde path, chlorite and green amphibole formed due to the breakdown of previously stable minerals.
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Location
- Europe (3766)
- Western Europe (762)
- France (175)
- Exact location (6.8430 E, 44.7277 N)
Tags
- alps (101)
- metamorphic rock (28)
- metamorphism (35)
- gabbro (6)
- france (21)
- french alps (2)
- pyroxene (1)
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1755 × 940 px;
image/png; 2.8 MB
Taken in
2013
Submitted on 5 June 2024
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Sophie Graul (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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