Mechanism of Mineral Reactions Inferred from Textures of Impure Dolomitic Marbles from East Greenland

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Author: BUCHER-NURMINEN, K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1982
• Subjects: Articles; Greenland; Sund; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/23/3/325; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/23.3.325

Mineral assemblages and chemical compositions of minerals found in impure dolomitic marbles embedded in gneisses and migmatites of the E. Greenland Caledonian fold belt (Scoresby Sund) suggest that the marbles were metamorphosed near 630 °C at 5 kb pressure. The analysis of complex textural and mineralogical relations among minerals such as dolomite, calcite, forsterite, pargasite, chlorite, spinel, diopside and phlogopite led to the conclusion that the major mineralogical features of the rocks were probably caused by sodium metasomatism at constant temperature and pressure. The effect of the inferred sodium metasomatism may be summarized by three schematic reactions all involving modal changes of excess dolomite, calcite, forsterite, chlorite and spinel: (a) nucleation and growth of pargasite, (b) resorption of phlogopite, and (c) growth of pargasite from phlogopite.