GRANULITIC AND ECLOGITIC INCLUSIONS FROM BASIC PIPES AT DELEGATE AUSTRALIA

Basic breccia-nephelinite pipes at Delegate (N.S.W., Australia) contain abundant two-pyroxene granulite, garnet granulite and fassaite eclogite inclusions and rare spinel pyroxenite, peridotite and charnockite inclusions. Petrographic, mineralogical and chemical data on the inclusions and their co-existing phases are consistent with the hypothesis that the fassaite eclogite, garnet granulite and spinel pyroxenite inclusions all crystallized or recrystallized in about the same temperature-pressure region, within the range 7-15 kb and 700-1200° C. This means that these particular inclusions were formed within the uppermost part of the mantle and/or the lowermost part of the crust. The two-pyroxene granulites may also have crystallized in the same region but there are some data which are indicative of crystallization at lower pressures within the crust. The charnockite inclusion is also considered to be of crustal origin. © 1969 Springer-Verlag.