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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.1984.048.346.07</article-id>
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<article-title>Subcalcic, Fe-Rich Amphiboles in Meta-Dolerites, Glenrock Station, NSW, Australia</article-title>
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<surname>Offler</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Department of Geology, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2308</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>3</month>
<year>1984</year>
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<volume>48</volume>
<issue>346</issue>
<fpage>47</fpage>
<lpage>52</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>6</day>
<month>6</month>
<year>1983</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1984, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1984</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Sub-greenschist facies metamorphism has produced unusual subcalcic, Fe-rich actinolitic amphiboles in meta-dolerites from the Glenrock Station area, NSW. They show edenite, riebeckite, ferri-tschermakite and Ti-tschermakite coupled substitutions. Their high Fe content is attributed to high <italic>a</italic><sub><sc>F</sc>e<sub>2+</sub></sub> and <italic>a</italic><sub><sc>F</sc>e<sub>3+</sub></sub> in the fluid phase produced during the breakdown of clinopyroxene, hornblende, magnetite, and ilmenite. The high <italic>a</italic><sub><sc>F</sc>e<sub>2+</sub></sub> led to Fe led to Fe<sup>2-</sup> occupying the <italic>B</italic> site, resulting in the formation of subcalcic amphiboles. Variation in <italic>a</italic><sub>Fe<sup>2+</sup></sub>, <italic>a</italic><sub>Fe<sup>3+</sup></sub>, <italic>a</italic><sub>Mg</sub>, <italic>a</italic><sub>Si</sub>, <italic>a</italic><sub>Al</sub>, and <italic>a</italic><sub>Ca</sub>, in different domains resulted in the crystallization of chemically inhomogeneous amphiboles.</p></abstract>
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