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PYROXENE-HORNFELS FACIES [1 record]

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Record 1 1998-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Mineralogy
DEF

The set of metamorphic mineral assemblages (facies) in which basic rocks are represented by diopside + hypersthene + plagioclase, with amphibole typically absent .... The facies is typical of high-grade thermal metamorphism, as in the inner part of contact aureoles.

Key term(s)
  • pyroxene hornfels facies

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minéralogie
CONT

[...] faciès des cornéennes (à amphibole, à pyroxène), caractéristique du métamorphisme de contact (température élevée, faible pression) [...]

Spanish

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