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Mineralogical Magazine; December 1997; v. 61; no. 6; p. 845-852
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Omphacite-diopside vein in an omphacitite block from the Osayama serpentinite melange, Sangun-Renge metamorphic belt, southwestern Japan

Tatsuki Tsujimori

Kanazawa University, Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan

Omphacite (Jd (sub 46.1-52.0) Ae (sub 0-8.4) Aug (sub 48.0-51.2) ) and diopside (Jd (sub 4.3-6.3) Ae (sub 0-0.4) Aug (sub 93.6-95.6) ) coexist in a vein cutting an omphacitite block in a serpentinite melange of the Oeyama ophiolite, central Chugoku Mountains. The compositional gap between omphacite and diopside is significantly wider than for other omphacite-diopside pairs reported in the literature. The intergrowth texture of the omphacite-diopside vein suggests that the clinopyroxene pair was contemporaneously crystallized in the fracture from a Ca-bearing, alkali-rich fluid in a sub-solvus condition. Such a fluid may have been introduced from the surrounding serpentinized clinopyroxene-bearing harzburgite. The stability of omphacite and Al-rich pumpellyite in the matrix and the omphacite-diopside vein indicate that the earlier matrix recrystallization and later fracture filling may have both taken place under high-P-T condition during the melange-forming stage.

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