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Metamorphism and Contrasting Corona Structures in Bolangir Anorthositic Rocks, Orissa
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Massif type anorthositic rocks in Bolangir area of the Eastern Ghats belt contain garnet porphyroblasts, which are surrounded by reaction coronas. The corona usually comprises a vermicular intergrowth, which in one instance consists of radial orthopyroxene and anorthite-rich plagioclase, and in another of radial chlorite and anorthite-rich plagioclase. Some of the anorthositic rocks are layered with thin discontinuous mafic layers of clinopyroxene and biotite. Notable is the presence of retrograde ferro-anthophyllite in the mafic layers of some of the rocks. Thermobarometric calculations using assemblage in the orthopyroxene corona indicate decompression from minimum peak P-T condition of 8 kbar and 700°C.
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Anorthosite, Metamorphism, Corona, Decompression, Bolangir, Eastern Ghats.
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