Assimilation of Crustal Material by Basaltic Magma: Strontium Isotopic and Trace Element Data from the Edgecumbe Volcanic Field, SE Alaska

Abstract
Textures in the blueschist metabasic rocks of the island of Syros, Greece, indicate a reaction forming omphacite and garnet from earlier glaucophane and epidote. A balanced ‘whole rock’ reaction can be written using the phase compositions and modal mineralogy of the products observed. This reaction is continuous in P-T space if Mg and Fe2+ are independent components. The available thermodynamic data suggest that the ‘eclogite’ (garnet plus omphacite) assemblage is favoured by higher temperatures.

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