Petrology of thermally metamorphosed pelitic rocks in the Champawat Area, Kumaun Himalaya

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Pelitic, Hornfels, Champawat, Hornblende-Hornfels Facies, Grano-Diorite, Batholith

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In the Champawat area, Kumaun Himalaya, greenschist facies regionally metamorphosed rocks viz chlorite-phyllite and schist have been subjected to thermal metamorphism due to emplacement of batholithic granite/granodiorite body. As a consequence, biotite, garnet, andalusite, fibrolite, sillimanite and perthite minerals have formed in the contact rocks. The conspicuous absence of cordierite and staurolite reported from such aureole rocks is due to higher FeO/MgO ratio of the bulk rock composition in the former while the absence of staurolite is due to low Al2O3/FeO+MgO ratio in the schists. AFM diagram demonstrates that in muscovite-bearing schist, the bulk composition of chlorite- and cordierite-bearing rocks are restricted to low FeO/MgO side and thus the restricted occurrence of former and the absence of latter in the contact rocks of the area. This is further evident from the common occurrence of almandine-rich garnet in the rocks.

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