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Coexisting calderite and spessartine garnets in eclogite-facies metacherts of the Western Alps

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The coexistence of a colourless and a yellow garnet was observed in eclogite-facies manganese concentrations of the Mesozoic ophiolitic Zermatt-Saas Unit, at the Praborna mine near Saint-Marcel, Val d'Aoste, Italy, and in the upper Maurienne Valley, France. They occur both in oxidised metachert with hematite and braunite (þ minor Mn-pyroxenoid and tirodite, rare tiragalloite; with ardennite or piemontite in distinct layers), and in more reduced, carbonate-rich boudins included in it. The cooccurrence takes a variety of textural aspects, from coexisting euhedral garnets (10-100 mm in size for the calderite to mm-size for spessartine) to sharp overgrowths of yellow calderitic garnet on colourless spessartine, to yellow cauliflower-like masses (a few hundreds of mm in size) overgrowing colourless spessartine and showing evidence of oscillatory zoning, resorption stages and resumed growth. Sector zoning and anisotropy are common, although not consistent features. Compositions can be expressed to 95% in the quadrilateral system (Ca, Mn 2þ) 3 (Al, Fe 3þ) 2 Si 3 O 12 , with less than 1.0 wt% MgO and 0.8 wt% TiO 2 in colourless spessartine, and less than 0.2 wt% MgO and 1.6 wt% TiO 2 in yellow garnet. Calcium partitions into the ferric garnet. Coexisting pairs define two compositional gaps, bounded by values of the Fe 3þ =(Al þ Fe 3þ) ratio of 10 and 15% for the first one, of 40 and 65% for the other. The optically obvious discontinuity (colour change and Becke's line) corresponds to the narrower gap, between colourless spessartine and yellow spessartine, whereas the broad compositional gap occurs within yellow garnet, between yellow spessartine and yellow calderite, and is only revealed by back-scattered electron images. Only the latter can be a candidate for a miscibility gap, if any.

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Bénédicte Cenki-Tok, C. Chopin. Coexisting calderite and spessartine garnets in eclogite-facies metacherts of the Western Alps. Mineralogy and Petrology, 2006, 88 (1-2), pp.47-68. ⟨10.1007/s00710-006-0146-4⟩. ⟨hal-04404262⟩
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