Abstract
Prehnite- and/or pumpellyite-bearing meta-igneous rocks are found on the west side of the Appalachian metamorphic belt (1) near Jonestown, south-eastern Pennsylvania; (2) on Rensselaer Plateau, eastern New York; (3) near Quebec City, Quebec; and (4) at Little Port, Humber Arm, western Newfoundland. The assemblages critical to determining the conditions of metamorphism are (1) chlorite-epidote-hematite-pumpellyite-prehnite; actinolite-chlorite-hematite-pumpellyite-stilpnomelane; (2) actinolite-chlorite-epidote-stilpnomelane; chlorite-epidote-pumpellyite-stilpnomelane; chlorite-epidote-hematite-pumpellyite; (3) chlorite-epidote-hematite-pumpellyite-stilpnomelane; chlorite-epidote-pumpellyite-prehnite; and (4) chlorite-epidote-prehnite; chlorite-prehnite-stilpnomelane; chlorite-epidote-pumpellyite-prehnite. One pumpellyite-bearing rock from western Newfoundland shows a later vein of analcime-calcite. All the assemblages also include quartz, sphene, calcite, K-mica, and albite.

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