Abstract: Contact metamorphism in the aureole of the Easky adamellite produced andalusite at the expense of regional staurolite, kyanite, and garnet. In the inner aureole sillimanite and K-feldspar also grew. Cordierite is only rarely present. Conditions of metamorphism in the inner aureole have been deduced from five independent criteria as 595 ± 30 °C and 2.5 ± 0.5kb. The nearby Lough Talt adamellite was emplaced at slightly higher pressures. Some aureole rocks have undergone oxidation with conversion of regional garnet to magnetite and andalusite. The reacting assemblage buffered ≥O2 near 10−17 bars. It is inferred that oxidation was caused by movement of H2O from the country rocks into the intrusion.
Mineralogical Magazine; June 1981 v. 44; no. 334; p. 125-131; DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1981.044.334.01
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