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Jan 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984gecoa..48...15f&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 48, Jan. 1984, p. 15-27.
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Barometers, Garnets, Peridotite, Petrology, Temperature Measuring Instruments, Accuracy, Lesotho, Mineralogy, Miscibility Gap, Pressure Distribution, Temperature Distribution
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Twenty-one geothermometers and six geobarometers are evaluated for accuracy and precision for garnet lherzolites, with a suite of well-equilibrated xenoliths from kimberlites of northern Lesotho. Accuracy was tested by comparison of P-T estimates for a diamond-bearing and a graphite-bearing xenolith with the experimentally determined diamond-graphite univariant curve and by comparison of P-T estimates for phlogopite-bearing xenoliths to the high-temperature stability limit of phlogopite. Precision was evaluated by measuring the scatter of P-T estimates for each of four xenoliths from a wide range of P and T when many point analyses of the constituent minerals are used for P-T estimation. Most satisfactory is a thermobarometer composed of the uncorrected diopside-enstatite miscibility gap of Lindsley and Dixon (1976), combined with the uncorrected isopleths for aluminum in enstatite coexisting with pyrope of MacGregor (1974). The inflection observed in the northern Lesotho paleogeotherm cannot be an artifact of the method of temperature estimation.
Boyd F. R.
Finnerty A. A.
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