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Minerals:
mostly hydrous minerals
Clay Minerals
Serpentine
Chlorite
HIGH GRADE METMAMORPHISM
Index minerals:
Muscovite - hydrous mineral that eventually disappears at
the highest grade of metamorphism
Biotite - a hydrous mineral that is stable to very high grades
of metamorphism.
Pyroxene - a non hydrous mineral.
Garnet - a non hydrous mineral.
PROTOLITH COMPOSITION
Amphibolites
CALCAREOUS
MARBLE Calcite.
METAMORPHISM
QUARTZO-FELDSPATHIC
GNEISSES
(quar tz, feldspar, and biotite)