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Greenschist facies is determined by the particular temperature and pressure conditions required to metamorphose basalt to form the typical greenschist facies minerals chlorite, actinolite, and albite. Greenschist facies results from low temperature, moderate pressure metamorphism.
The zeolite facies is the metamorphic facies with the lowest metamorphic grade. At lower temperature and pressure processes in the rock are called diagenesis. The facies is named for zeolites, strongly hydrated tectosilicates. It can have the following mineral assemblages: In meta-igneous rocks and greywackes:
In his pioneering work on metamorphic facies in the Scottish Highlands, G.M. Barrow identified the chlorite zone as the zone of mildest metamorphism. [12] In modern petrology, chlorite is the diagnostic mineral of the greenschist facies. [10] This facies is characterized by temperatures near 450 °C (840 °F) and pressures near 5 kbar. [13]
It initially undergoes low-grade metamorphism to metabasalt of the zeolite and prehnite-pumpellyite facies, but as the basalt subducts to greater depths, it is metamorphosed to the blueschist facies and then the eclogite facies. Metamorphism to the eclogite facies releases a great deal of water vapor from the rock, which drives volcanism in the ...
Graphite schist is known to have experienced greenschist facies metamorphism, for example in the northern Andes. [25] Metamorphosis of felsic volcanic rock, such as tuff, can produce quartz-muscovite schist. [26]
Based on inspection of extreme metamorphism and post-subduction magmatism at convergent plate margins, paired metamorphic belts are further extended to two contrasting metamorphic facies series: [7] one is blueschist to eclogite facies series that was produced by subducting metamorphism at low thermal gradients of <10 °C/km, and the other is ...
Petrogenetic grid for metapelites (click to zoom). [1] [2] Each line represents a metamorphic reaction.Metamorphic facies included are: BS = Blueschist facies, EC = Eclogite facies, PP = Prehnite-Pumpellyite facies, GS = Greenschist facies, EA = Epidote-Amphibolite facies, AM = Amphibolite facies, GRA = Granulite facies, UHT = Ultra-High Temperature facies, HAE = Hornfels-Albite-Epidote facies ...
Its upper reaches show upper greenschist facies conditions, the lower sections reached already lower amphibolite facies conditions. The presence of chlorite and chloritized biotite in shear bands and in pressure shadows indicates retrograde metamorphism , which has been known in the southern Limousin for quite a while.