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Table 6 Secondary minerals disabled to account for their very slow precipitation kinetics

From: Differential alteration of basaltic lava flows and hyaloclastites in Icelandic hydrothermal systems

50 °C; 5 MPa	100 °C; 10 MPa	150 °C; 15 MPa	200 °C; 20 MPa	250 °C; 25 MPa	300 °C; 30 MPa
Quartz	Quartz	Quartz
K-feldspath	K-feldspath	K-feldspath
Albite_low	Albite_low	Albite_low
Clinochlore	Clinochlore	Clinochlore	Clinochlore
Daphnite	Daphnite	Daphnite	Daphnite
Prehnite	Prehnite	Prehnite	Prehnite
Epidote	Epidote	Epidote	Epidote
Wollastonite	Wollastonite	Wollastonite	Wollastonite
Fe-pargasite	Fe-pargasite	Fe-pargasite	Fe-pargasite
Pargasite	Pargasite	Pargasite	Pargasite
Grossular	Grossular	Grossular	Grossular
Hedenbergite	Hedenbergite	Hedenbergite	Hedenbergite
Pyrite	Pyrite	Pyrite
Pyrrhotite	Laumontite	Wairakite
Magnesite	Wairakite
Hydromagnesite
Dolomite
Siderite
Laumontite
Wairakite

The cut-offs for mineral precipitation were selected following Gudmundsson and Arnorsson (2005) and Marks et al. (2010)

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