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Cordierite-garnet and biotite-garnet pairs are the most effective thermometers for estimating the equilibrium temperatures in metapelites. Both of these ther-mometers are based on the exchange equilibria with relatively large entropy change in the following reactions:
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Perchuk, L.L., Lavrent’eva, I.V. (1983). Experimental Investigation of Exchange Equilibria in the System Cordierite-Garnet-Biotite. In: Saxena, S.K. (eds) Kinetics and Equilibrium in Mineral Reactions. Advances in Physical Geochemistry, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5587-1_7
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