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Presenting Thermocalc Average-P-T Results

Many people have asked me about the best format for presenting, in tabular form, the results of P-T calculations from THERMOCALC. Here is a pattern, based on one devised by Malcolm Dransfield, that seems to provide all the necessary information, and still is compact enough to allow several samples to be listed on a single page.


THERMOCALC Average P-T results from the Suru Valley Traverse
Sample
P-T stage

ZD-24

peak

ZD-26

peak

ZD-28

peak

ZD-29

peak

L477

peak

Activities

Garnet

py

gr

alm

Biotite

phl

ann

east

naph

Muscovite

mu

pa

cel

fcel

Plagioclase

an

ab

Chlorite

clin

daph

ames

Other

at 650°C

rim

0.00103

0.00110

0.471

mean

0.0138

0.0968

0.0204

0.00025

mean

0.608

0.447

0.042

0.044

mean

0.19

0.84

 

-

-

-

q  H2O

at 650°C

mean rim

0.00052

0.00021

0.580

mean

0.0079

0.107

0.0153

0.00019

 

0.556

0.349

0.055

0.045

 

0.085

0.93

 

-

-

-

q  H2O

at 600°C

mean

0.0030

0.0122

0.160

mean

0.0628

0.0393

0.0409

0.0012

 

-

-

-

-

mean

0.49

0.65

 

-

-

-

cz  0.59

q  H2O

at 600°C

mean rim

0.00011

0.022

0.268

mean

0.0299

0.0825

0.0253

0.0007

 

-

-

-

-

mean

0.376

0.724

 

-

-

-

cz  0.58

q  H2O

at 550°C

mean rim

0.00094

0.0051

0.387

mean

0.0326

0.0576

0.0289

0.0007

low-Si

0.663

0.532

0.041

0.039

mean

0.414

0.719

mean

0.021

0.022

0.014

q  H2O

Results

aH2O

T°C

s.d.(T)

P kbar

s.d.(P)

correl.

fit

NR

end members
eliminated

 

1.0

672

46

9.5

1.5

0.670

1.24

7

-

 

0.5

624

41

9.0

1.4

0.667

1.24

7

-

 

0.25

628

41

11.1

1.6

0.651

1.21

6

fcel

 

1.0

578

92

9.0

2.6

0.982

1.13

4

-

 

1.0

501

74

7.5

2.3

0.976

0.69

4

-

 

1.0

580

14

7.5

0.7

0.409

1.03

10

-

 

0.5

536

12

7.1

0.7

0.422

1.03

10

-

 
 

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