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Summary: Transactions of the 16th
Caribbean Geological Conference, Barbados.
Caribbean Journal of Earth Science, 39 (2005), ...-....
© Geological Society of Jamaica.
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UHP metamorphism in garnet peridotite, Cuaba unit,
Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic
RICHARD N. ABBOTT, JR.1
, GRENVILLE DRAPER
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, AND SHANTANU KESHAV
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Department of Geology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
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Department of Geology, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
ABSTRACT. Spinel-bearing garnet peridotite (olivine + diopside + enstatite + garnet + spinel + late
magnesiohornblende + late serpentine) and a corundum-bearing variant are associated with
hornblende gneiss and schist (hornblende + plagioclase + quartz + rutile +/- garnet +/- biotite +/-
epidote) and retrograded eclogite (hornblende + symplectic diopside-plagioclase + garnet + quartz +/-
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