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- quartz. Greenschist is defined by the presence of the minerals chlorite, epidote, or actinolite, which give the rock its green color. Greenschists also have...
- green or greyish-green color. It occurs frequently as a constituent of greenschists. The name (from Gr**** ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος/aktís, aktînos, a 'ray' and λίθος/líthos...
- in metamorphosed dolomitic limestones, and actinolite in metamorphic greenschists/glaucophane schists. Jadeite is a sodium- and aluminium-rich pyroxene...
- mode or origin. Special names still in wide use include amphibolite, greenschist, phyllite, marble, serpentinite, eclogite, migmatite, skarn, granulite...
- component of chromium rich phyllitic or schistose metamorphic rocks of the greenschist facies. Verdite is a type of metamorphic rock made mostly of an impure...
- a common product of retrograde metamorphism of metabasalt at (upper) greenschist facies conditions. Often, this will take on the crystal form and habit...
- may be of algal origin. Graphite schist is known to have experienced greenschist facies metamorphism, for example in the northern Andes. Metamorphosis...
- in deep-seated igneous rocks like syenite as well as serpentines and greenschists. Demantoid is one of the most prized of garnet varieties. Grossular is...
- subduction zone. The resulting rocks are phyllites, blueschists and greenschists typical of an accretionary wedge, with increased metamorphism from northeast...
- within orogenic belts as terranes of lithology in faulted contact with greenschist or rarely eclogite facies rocks. Blueschist, as a rock type, is defined...