<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Large crystals of kyanite (&lt;15 cm in size) occur in quartz segregations in Paleozoic gneissses on Baranec Mt., Western Tatra Mountains, northern Slovakia. Blue kyanite crystals coexist with quartz and plagioclase. The kyanite contains inclusions of apatite, monazite. gamet, rutile and biotite and overgrowths of retrograde sillimanite. muscovite and biotite. The kyanite crystals are the largest found up to now in the Tatra crystalline massif or in the other Western Carpathians crystalline cores. Kyanite. with the co-existing mineral assemblage, is indicative of a HP stage duiing Hercynian metamorphism of the Western Tatra Mountains. </p></abstract>

Large crystals of kyanite (<15 cm in size) occur in quartz segregations in Paleozoic gneissses on Baranec Mt., Western Tatra Mountains, northern Slovakia. Blue kyanite crystals coexist with quartz and plagioclase. The kyanite contains inclusions of apatite, monazite. gamet, rutile and biotite and overgrowths of retrograde sillimanite. muscovite and biotite. The kyanite crystals are the largest found up to now in the Tatra crystalline massif or in the other Western Carpathians crystalline cores. Kyanite. with the co-existing mineral assemblage, is indicative of a HP stage duiing Hercynian metamorphism of the Western Tatra Mountains.

Megacrysts of kyanite from Baranec Mt., Western Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

Univeiisty of Silesia, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Będzińska st. 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland

Mineralogia

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{"article-title":"Megacrysts of kyanite from Baranec Mt., Western Tatra Mountains, Slovakia"}

Large crystals of kyanite (<15 cm in size) occur in quartz segregations in Paleozoic gneissses on Baranec Mt., Western Tatra Mountains, northern Slovakia. Blue...

Megacrysts of kyanite from Baranec Mt., Western Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

Published Online: Jul 31, 2014

Page range: 31 - 37

Received: Dec 22, 2013

Accepted: Mar 10, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mipo-2013-0003

Keywords
kyanite, metamorphic envelope, Western Tatra Mts, Western Carphatians

© by Krzysztof Szopa

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Megacrysts of kyanite from Baranec Mt., Western Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

Published Online: Jul 31, 2014

Page range: 31 - 37

Received: Dec 22, 2013

Accepted: Mar 10, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mipo-2013-0003

Keywordskyanite, metamorphic envelope, Western Tatra Mts, Western Carphatians

© by Krzysztof Szopa

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
kyanite, metamorphic envelope, Western Tatra Mts, Western Carphatians