The Songshugou Alpine-type ultramafie mass is intruded into the surroundiug plagioclase-amphibole schist where high-temperature aureoles are found well exposed but not distroyed. From the outer part inwards, four aure...The Songshugou Alpine-type ultramafie mass is intruded into the surroundiug plagioclase-amphibole schist where high-temperature aureoles are found well exposed but not distroyed. From the outer part inwards, four aureoles are recognized: the oligaclase-hornblende zone, the andesine-hornblende zone, the garnet zone and the pyroxcne zone. Toward the mass, systematic variations are noticed in the rocks from one zone to another, i.e., the rocks vary from fine-grained, fibrous, crystalloblastic texture to medium coarse-grained, granular, crystalloblastic texture and from schistose structure to massive structure; hornblende varies from blue green to brown; plagiclases vary in composition from An12-17, to An37, even to An80 near the contact; garnet and pyroxene beeome more and more abuudant; sphcne is replaced progressively by titanomagnetite;and Na(K), A1 and Ti in the hornblende tend to increase near the contact. Studies have shown that the typical rocks in the four contact metamorphic zones are generally similar in major and trace elements. But different mineral assemblages and mineral chemistry indicate that the rocks were formed under different physical conditions.展开更多
文摘The Songshugou Alpine-type ultramafie mass is intruded into the surroundiug plagioclase-amphibole schist where high-temperature aureoles are found well exposed but not distroyed. From the outer part inwards, four aureoles are recognized: the oligaclase-hornblende zone, the andesine-hornblende zone, the garnet zone and the pyroxcne zone. Toward the mass, systematic variations are noticed in the rocks from one zone to another, i.e., the rocks vary from fine-grained, fibrous, crystalloblastic texture to medium coarse-grained, granular, crystalloblastic texture and from schistose structure to massive structure; hornblende varies from blue green to brown; plagiclases vary in composition from An12-17, to An37, even to An80 near the contact; garnet and pyroxene beeome more and more abuudant; sphcne is replaced progressively by titanomagnetite;and Na(K), A1 and Ti in the hornblende tend to increase near the contact. Studies have shown that the typical rocks in the four contact metamorphic zones are generally similar in major and trace elements. But different mineral assemblages and mineral chemistry indicate that the rocks were formed under different physical conditions.
