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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1976.040.313.09</article-id>
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<article-title>A Metamorphosed, Layered Alpine-Type Peridotite in the Langavat Valley, South Harris, Outer Hebrides</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Livingstone</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Department of Geology, The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>3</month>
<year>1976</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<issue>313</issue>
<fpage>493</fpage>
<lpage>499</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>16</day>
<month>8</month>
<year>1974</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>3</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>1975</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1976, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1976</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>A layered alpine-type peridotite, of pre-Scourian age(?), has been metamorphosed in the granulite facies then partially retrogressed to greenschist facies assemblages. Following granulite facies metamorphism of the dunite-harzburgite peridotite, granitization and metasomatism modified the peridotite by adding calcium and generated olivine-tremolite rocks. Anthophyllite-rich rocks developed from localized orthopyroxene-rich zones. The main epoch of serpentinization followed after tremolite formation and removed a portion of the calcium previously added, but with negligible effect upon the original trace-element content. Between tremolite generation and the main period of serpentinization greenschist facies assemblages formed. The layered rocks possess a repetitive, chemical variation normally attributable to basic igneous processes, although they may have formed either by vein metasomatism or by metasomatism of a disrupted layered igneous series. Twelve rock and five mineral analyses are presented, and trace element data for twenty-one rocks.</p></abstract>
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