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Garnet lherzolite

A rock subtype
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A lherzolite rich in garnet.

Occurs as xenoliths (often nodular) in kimberlites or basalts.


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Mindat ID:
53713
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:53713:9

Classification of Garnet lherzoliteHide

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Associations Based on Photo Data:
1 photo of Garnet lherzolite associated with PyropeMg3Al2(SiO4)3
1 photo of Garnet lherzolite associated with ForsteriteMg2(SiO4)
1 photo of Garnet lherzolite associated with DiopsideCaMgSi2O6

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References for Garnet lherzoliteHide

Reference List:
Chen, Ju-chin (1971) Petrology and chemistry of garnet lherzolite nodules in kimberlite from South Africa. American Mineralogist, 56 (11-12) 2098-2110
Reid, J. B., Frey, F. A. (1971) Rare Earth distributions in lherzolite and garnet pyroxenite xenoliths and the constitution of the upper mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 76 (5) 1184-1196 doi:10.1029/jb076i005p01184
Carswell, D.A. (1975) Primary and secondary phlogopites and clinopyroxenes in garnet lherzolite xenoliths. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 9. 417-429 doi:10.1016/0079-1946(75)90031-2
Shimizu, N. (1975) Rare earth elements in garnets and clinopyroxenes from garnet lherzolite nodules in kimberlites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 25 (1) 26-32 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(75)90206-x
Prinz, Martin, Vincent Manson, D., Hlava, Paul F., Keil, Klaus (1975) Inclusions in diamonds: Garnet lherzolite and eclogite assemblages. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 9. 797-815 doi:10.1016/0079-1946(75)90052-x
Ferguson, John, Ellis, D. J., England, R. N. (1977) Unique spinel-garnet lherzolite inclusion in kimberlite from Australia. Geology, 5 (5) 278 doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1977)5<278:usliik>2.0.co;2
Evans, Bernard W., Trommsdorff, Volkmar (1978) Petrogenesis of garnet lherzolite, Cima di Gagnone, Lepontine Alps. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 40 (3) 333-348 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(78)90158-9
Shimizu, N.; AllĆØgre, C. J. (1978) Geochemistry of transition elements in garnet lherzolite nodules in kimberlites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 67 (1). p.41-50. doi:10.1007/bf00371632
Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki, Akai, Junji, Tomita, Katsutoshi (1978) Clinoamphibole lamellae in diopside of garnet lherzolite from Alpe Arami, Bellinzona, Switzerland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 66 (3) 263-270 doi:10.1007/bf00373410
BASU, A. R., TATSUMOTO, M. (1979) Samarium-Neodymium Systematics in Kimberlites and in the Minerals of Garnet Lherzolite Inclusions. Science, 205 (4404). 398-401 doi:10.1126/science.205.4404.398
Akaogi, M.; Akimoto, S. (1979) High-pressure phase equilibria in a garnet lherzolite, with special reference to Mg2+-Fe2+ partitioning among constituent minerals. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 19 (1). p.31-51. doi:10.1016/0031-9201(79)90088-8
Carswell, D. A., Gibb, F. G. F. (1980) Geothermometry of garnet lherzolite nodules with special reference to those from the kimberlites of Northern Lesotho. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 74 (4) 403-416 doi:10.1007/bf00518120
O'Neill, Hugh St. C. (1981) The transition between spinel lherzolite and garnet lherzolite, and its use as a Geobarometer. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 77 (2) 185-194 doi:10.1007/bf00636522
Harrison, Wendy J. (1981) Partitioning of REE between minerals and coexisting melts during partial melting of a garnet lherzolite. American Mineralogist, 66 (3-4) 242-259
EHRENBERG, S. N. (1982) Petrogenesis of Garnet Lherzolite and Megacrystalline Nodules from the Thumb, Navajo Volcanic Field. Journal of Petrology, 23 (4) 507-547 doi:10.1093/petrology/23.4.507
Ehrenberg, S.N. (1982) Rare earth element geochemistry of garnet lherzolite and megacrystalline nodules from minette of the Colorado plateau province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 57 (1) 191-210 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(82)90185-6
Herzberg, Claude T. (1983) Solidus and liquidus temperatures and mineralogies for anhydrous garnet-lherzolite to 15 GPa. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 32 (2). 193-202 doi:10.1016/0031-9201(83)90139-5
SUTHERLAND, F.L., HOLLIS, J.D., BARRON, L.M. (1984) Garnet Lherzolite and Other Inclusions from a Basalt Flow, Bow Hill, Tasmania. In Developments in Petrology. Elsevier. p.145-160. doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-42274-3.50019-6
Kato, Takumi, Kumazawa, Mineo (1986) Melting experiment on natural lherzolite at 20 GPa: Formation of phase B coexisting with garnet. Geophysical Research Letters, 13 (3) 181-184 doi:10.1029/gl013i003p00181
OBATA, M., MORTEN, L. (1987) Transformation of Spinel Lherzolite to Garnet Lherzolite in Ultramafic Lenses of the Austridic Crystalline Complex, Northern Italy. Journal of Petrology, 28 (3) 599-623 doi:10.1093/petrology/28.3.599
Carswell, D. A., Gibb, F. G. F. (1987) Evaluation of mineral thermometers and barometers applicable to garnet lherzolite assemblages. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 95 (4) 499-511 doi:10.1007/bf00402208
Carswell, D. A., Gibb, F. G. F. (1987) Garnet lherzolite xenoliths in the kimberlites of northern Lesotho: revised P-T equilibration conditions and upper mantle Palaeogeotherm. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 97 (4) 473-487 doi:10.1007/bf00375325
Carswell, D. A. (1991) The garnet-orthopyroxene Al barometer: problematic application to natural garnet lherzolite assemblages. Mineralogical Magazine, 55 (378) 19-31 doi:10.1180/minmag.1991.055.378.03
Cao, Ronglong, Zhu, Shouhua, Aoki, K., Fujimaki, H. (1992) Sanidine-olivine-diopside association in a metasomatized garnet lherzolite xenolith from southeastern China. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, 11 (1) 55-69 doi:10.1007/bf02875658
Hiramatsu, N., Banno, S., Hirajima, T., Cong, B. (1995) Ultrahigh-pressure garnet lherzolite from Chijiadian, Rongcheng County, in the Su-Lu region of eastern China. The Island Arc, 4 (4). 324-333 doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1995.tb00153.x
Klemme, Stephan, O'Neill, Hugh StC. (2000) The near-solidus transition from garnet lherzolite to spinel lherzolite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 138 (3) 237-248 doi:10.1007/s004100050560
Walter, M., Katsura, T., Kubo, A., Shinmei, T., Nishikawa, O., Ito, E., Lesher, C., Funakoshi, K. (2002) Spinelā€“garnet lherzolite transition in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 revisited: an in situ X-ray study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66 (12) 2109-2121 doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(02)00845-1
Yang, Jian-Jun (2003) Relict edenite in a garnet lherzolite from the Chinese Su-Lu UHP metamorphic terrane: Implications for metamorphic history. American Mineralogist, 88 (1) 180-188 doi:10.2138/am-2003-0121
Dawson, J.B. (2004) A fertile harzburgiteā€“garnet lherzolite transition: possible inferences for the roles of strain and metasomatism in upper mantle peridotites. Lithos, 77 (1) 553-569 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2004.03.016
GUDFINNSSON, GUDMUNDUR H., PRESNALL, DEAN C. (2005) Continuous Gradations among Primary Carbonatitic, Kimberlitic, Melilititic, Basaltic, Picritic, and Komatiitic Melts in Equilibrium with Garnet Lherzolite at 3ā€“8ā€‰GPa. Journal of Petrology, 46 (8) 1645-1659 doi:10.1093/petrology/egi029
Garrido, Carlos J., Gueydan, FrĆ©dĆ©ric, Booth-Rea, Guillermo, Precigout, Jacques, Hidas, Karoly, PadrĆ³n-Navarta, JosĆ© A., Marchesi, Claudio (2011) Garnet lherzolite and garnet-spinel mylonite in the Ronda peridotite: Vestiges of Oligocene backarc mantle lithospheric extension in the western Mediterranean. Geology, 39 (10) 927-930 doi:10.1130/g31760.1
Green, E. C. R., Holland, T. J. B., Powell, R., White, R. W. (2012) Garnet and spinel lherzolite assemblages in MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 and CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2: thermodynamic models and an experimental conflict. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30 (6) 561-577 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2012.00981.x
Grove, Timothy L., Holbig, Eva S., Barr, Jay A., Till, Christy B., Krawczynski, Michael J. (2013) Melts of garnet lherzolite: experiments, models and comparison to melts of pyroxenite and carbonated lherzolite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 166 (3) 887-910 doi:10.1007/s00410-013-0899-9
Grove, Timothy L., Holbig, Eva S., Barr, Jay A., Till, Christy B., Krawczynski, Michael J. (2014) Erratum to: Melts of garnet lherzolite: experiments, models and comparison to melts of pyroxenite and carbonated lherzolite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168 (6) doi:10.1007/s00410-014-1086-3
Shatskiy, Anton, Litasov, Konstantin D., Sharygin, Igor S., Ohtani, Eiji (2017) Composition of primary kimberlite melt in a garnet lherzolite mantle source: constraints from melting phase relations in anhydrous Udachnaya-East kimberlite with variable CO 2 content at 6.5 GPa. Gondwana Research, 45. 208-227 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.02.009
Sharygin, Igor S., Solovev, Konstantin A., Golovin, Alexander V. (2023) Kelyphite around garnet in unaltered lherzolite xenolith from the Udachnaya pipe (Siberian Craton): Formation exclusively via interaction with kimberlite melt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 256. 105821 doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105821
Rodrigues, Rodrigo Freitas; Yaxley, Gregory M.; Kamber, Balz S. (2025) Phase relations and solidus temperature of garnet lherzolite at 5 GPa revisited. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 180 (9). doi:10.1007/s00410-025-02250-4
Fux, Michael, Schmidt, Max W., Liebske, Christian (2025) Redox Melting of Garnet Lherzolite: Generation of Carbonated Silicate and Sulfide Melts and Implications for OIB Formation From Chalcophile and Redoxā€Sensitive Elements. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26 (3). doi:10.1029/2024gc012025
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