 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Evidence from jadeitite and related rocks from the Guatemala Suture Zone George E. Harlow, Kennet E. Flores...Evidence from jadeitite and related rocks from the Guatemala Suture Zone, LITHOS (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.lithos...Evidence from jadeitite and related rocks from the Guatemala Suture Zone Department of Earth and Planetary...analyses of jadeitites and related rocks from Guatemala compared with published data on comparable rocks...rocks from other sources. • In jadeitites from Guatemala, signatures of many trace elements resemble those |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | albitites and related rocks from the Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala G . E . HARLOW Department of Mineral...NY 10024-5192, USA ABSTRACT Jadeitites from Guatemala are found as weathered blocks in tectonized serpentinite...serpentinite in a 15-km zone north of the Motagua Fault Zone. Rock types found with jadeitite include...trajectory of the blocks. Barium aluminosilicates-banalsite, celsian, cymrite and hyalophane-are common minor...+ Key words: albitite; Guatemala; jadeite; jadeitite; metasomatism; Motagua Fault Zone; Abbreviations: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of graywacke, as in Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) (de Roever 1955), does not explain jadeite rock—jadeitite...used by the Aztecs in what is now Mexico: piedra de yjada (stone 4.2 Harlow · Tsujimori · Sorensen...identification of the source area along the Motagua River of Guatemala (Foshag & Leslie 1955, McBirney et al...eventually spurred the recognition of the jadeitites of Sierra del Convento (Garcı́a-Casco et al. 2009, Cárdenas-Párraga...Baja Verapaz and Sierra de Santa Cruz ultramafics (ophiolitic) north of the Northern Motagua mélange (NMM) |
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