Chemical and Mineralogical Characteristics of the Microscopic-sized Epidotes in the Metamorphic Basement Rocks within the Late Cretaceous Hatip Ophiolitic Melange in Konya (Central Southern Turkey)

At the base of the Neotethyan ophiolitic melange, widespread epidote crystals formedin metamafic rocks of the metamorphic basement, which were experienced a regionalmetamorphism in green-schist facies conditions. The epidote crystals is subhedral to euhedral,with high Al2O3 (26-30 %) and low Fe2O3 (5–8%) contents. It is predominantlyzoisite (Xcz = 0.46 to 0.72) and subordinate epidote (Xep =0.27-0.53) in composition, withtypical compositional zoning due to variable substitution of Fe3+ and Al3+ on octahedralsites and sector-zoning. The epidote is suggested to have a possible igneous origin, and tobe crystallised from a wet (H2O>5 wt %) magma under low fO2 and intermediate pressureconditions during initial stage crystallisation on the basis of its petrographical andmineralogical characteristics.

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