A sapphirine-cordierite-bronzite-phlogopite paragenesis from Namaqualand, South Africa

Abstract

Summary The rock composition and electron microprobe analyses of the five constituent minerals are presented for a sapphirine-cordierite-bronzite-phlogopite-spinel rock from Namaqualand, South Africa. These data are considered inrelation to experimental data and the mineralogy of certain associated rock types, and it is suggested that the sapphirine-bearing rock represents a metamorphic residuum (restite) after extraction of anatectic granitic liquid from an original argillaceous sediment.