Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Table 8 Average composition of granulite and eclogite facies garnet in mol% from 86 Grt analyses from Grt–Ph schist KB860.

From: The Theodul Glacier Unit, a slab of pre-Alpine rocks in the Alpine meta-ophiolite of Zermatt-Saas, Western Alps

G-Grt^a	Profile 1			Profile 2
G-Grt^a	Average	Std.dev.	Prp max	Average	Std.dev.	Prp max
Alm	68.4	2.6	64.8	68.0	1.9	65.7
Sps	1.5	0.5	1.3	1.8	0.9	1.3
Prp	24.5	3.0	28.4	24.2	2.7	27.1
Grs	5.5	0.1	5.5	6.0	0.1	5.9
# of points	30			29
X_Fe	0.74		0.70	0.74		0.71

E-Grt^b	Profile 1			Profile 2
E-Grt^b	Average	Std.dev.	Grs max	Average	Std.dev.	Grs max
Alm	54.8	0.8	53.5	54.8	1.8	54.2
Sps	2.2	0.2	2.2	1.9	0.6	1.9
Prp	8.3	1.1	8.5	9.0	1.1	8.3
Grs	34.7	0.7	35.8	34.3	1.0	35.6
# of points	10			17
X_Fe	0.87		0.86	0.86		0.87

^aGranulite facies garnet
^bEclogite facies garnet

Back to article page