Metamorphic garnets from the Lapland Granulite Belt (LGB) can be subdivided into 2 groups based on their REE distribution pattern. Garnets from mafic schists show a gentle slope from LREE to HREE enrichment and lack negative Eu-anomalies. Lower-Ca garnets from aluminous gneisses (acid granulites) are characterized by HREE enrichment and pronounced negative Eu-anomalies whose intensity tends to enhance with increase in SiO_2-content of the enclosing rocks. Lower temperatures of the granulite metamorphism within separate domains lead to higher HREE abundances in garnets. Different REE patterns in garnets from the Salnye Tundry schists are due to extremely high-magnesian garnets of presumably igneous origin. Pressure growth occurring during metamorphism seems to result in lower Sc-contents in the garnets.
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