In the Baie d'Audierne of the South Armorican domain, an intermediate metabasic-ultrabasic complex with isolated garnet pyroxenite lenses is exposed between upper and lower metasedimentary units. Metabasites in all units show geochemical characteristics similar to mid-ocean ridge magmatites. Garnets in pyroxenites are zoned with increasing XMg from cores to rims, and coexist with clinopyroxene (Jd 10 to Jd 33 ) and plagioclase (An 17 to An 35 ) of a mineral assemblage M1. Maximal pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions of the M1 metamorphism range between 800 and 950 °C and 14 and 19 kbar in different garnet pyroxenite lenses. The high-P-high-T rocks were overprinted by an assemblage M2 with Ca-amphiboles. Brown-green tschermakitic Ti-hornblende is in some cores and there are core to rim zonations from actinolite to tschermakite. Increasing Al IV and Al VI toward the rims of green amphiboles signal increases of P and T from 3 to 9 kbar and < <500 to 680 °C. In the metabasites of the lower metasedimentary unit, the Ca-amphiboles display similar zonation trends from actinolite cores to tschermakite rims, and a similar prograde P-T path up to 630 °C/6 kbar. Amphibolites in the upper metasedimentary unit show browngreen amphibole, interpreted as magmatic relict. Zonations from actinolite to magnesio-hornblende surround these cores and recorded prograde P-T paths to 5 kbar and 550 °C. The high-P-high-T rocks were welded with the metasedimentary units at the end of the µrst decompression path M1-M2. Subsequently the units underwent new burial and heating along an amphibolite facies P-T cycle M2. The present metamorphic conµguration could be the consequence of thrusting at a late stage of M2. This two-stage metamorphic history predates late Variscan granite intrusions and differs from P-T paths of other Armorican high-P units. 89Lucks, H., Schulz, B., Audren, C., and Triboulet, C., 2002, Variscan pressure-temperature evolution of garnet pyroxenites and amphibolites in the Baie d'Audierne metamorphic series, Brittany (France), in Martínez Catalán,
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