Deformation and metamorphic reactions in polyphase rocks

 

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Deformation and metamorphic reactions

 

granodiorites / anorthosites

 

100

 

Anorthosite deformed at granulite grade (same as 99), plane polarized light; heterogeneous nucleation of hornblende between plagioclase grains.

Plane polarized light view of image #99. Note the small hornblende grains which appear to have nucelated heterogeneously between plagioclase grains. These new hornblende grains have a composition slightly different from that of the hornblende porphyroclasts.