Metamorphic Minerals
Rocks
Thermodynamics
Occurrences
Plate Tectonics
100
A very soft tet-oct-tet silicate found in association with ultramafic rocks
What is talc?
100
chlorite, illite, quartz
What is the low grade product of metamorphic mud?
100
determines the equilibrium state
What is Gibb's free energy?
100
Greenschist metabasalts near Mt Baker
What is Mt Shucksan?
200
A tet-oct silicate that is lumped together with another group of hazardous minerals
What is crysotile?
200
glaucophane, lawsonite, quartz, garnet
What is Blueschist?
200
Determines the number of phases that can exist
What is the Phase Rule?
200
Greenschist to Ecolgite transition under Seattle
What caused 2001, 1965, and 1949 Seattle earthquakes?
200
Low temperature high pressure subduction product
What is Blueschist
300
Pistashio green and fills vesicles
What is epidote?
300
rich in hornblende, plagioclase, quartz and garnet
What is the metamorphic product of a mafic rock
300
Three components and five phases
What is an invariant point?
300
Extensive zeolite facies mafic rock. Found under seas
What is ocean crust?
300
process adding H2O to new oceanic crust
What is hydrothermal circulation?
400
a spacious channel in this cyclosilicate gives it many technological applications. It is also an index mineral for low grade metamorphism
What is chabazite? (or zeolite)
400
a rock rich in kyanite, staurolite, and muscovite
What is the metamorphic product of mud?
400
Shows PT regions of mineral stability for multicomponent systems
What is a psuedosection?
400
Prehenite-Pumpellyite facies west of Seattle
What are Olympic Mountains?
400
The cause of large scale regional metamorphism
What is a continent-continent collision?
500
rose pink hydrothermal mineral
What is rhodochrosite?
500
a wollastonite-rich rock
What is the metamorphic product of limestone?
500
Shows where the metamorphic reactions occur
What is a petrogenetic grid?
500
Mid crustal rock metamorphic grade
What is amphibolite facies
500
intrusive heating of country rock
What is contact metamorphism?
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