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Metasomatic Transformation of Amphibolites into Corundum-Bearing Plagioclasites: Zoning and Numerical Model of the Process with Reference to the Unique Khitostrov Corundum Deposit, Fennoscandian Shield

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The paper presents results of a study of middle crustal (amphibolite-facies level) desilicated rocks exemplified by corundum-bearing plagioclasites developing after metabasites at the unique Khitostrov corundum deposit in the Belomorian–Lapland orogen of the Fennoscandian shield, with emphasis placed onto newly acquired geological data, documentation and analysis of the metasomatic zoning, determination of the P–T conditions of its formation, and a model of the metasomatic process.

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  1. Mineral symbols are according to (Whitney and Evans, 2010).

  2. Composition parameters of minerals: XMg = Mg/(Mg + Fe) for amphibole, biotite, and staurolite.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank the director of the regionally important specially protected territories in the Republic of Karelia I.V. Kiprukhin and their colleagues V.M. Kozlovskii and N.I. Frishman for substantial aid in organizing and conducting the fieldwork. D.V. Dolivo-Dobrovol’skii, V.I. Ivashchenko, and V.M. Kozlovskii are thanked for fruitful discussions of scientific problems formulated and discussed in this paper. The authors are indebted to the reviewers L.Ya. Aranovich and N.N. Akinfiev for constructive criticism that led us to improve the manuscript.

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This study was supported by Russian Science Foundation, Project 22-27-00270, https://rscf.ru/project/22-27-00270/.

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Bushmin, S.A., Kol’tsov, A.B., Lebedeva, Y.M. et al. Metasomatic Transformation of Amphibolites into Corundum-Bearing Plagioclasites: Zoning and Numerical Model of the Process with Reference to the Unique Khitostrov Corundum Deposit, Fennoscandian Shield. Petrology 31, 604–623 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591123060061

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