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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%; text-indent: 14.2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">The epidote-bearing Čani&scaron;te pegmatite and adjacent Upper Carboniferous granodiorites cut Precambrian gneises, at the western slopes of the Selečka Mts., the Eastern Pelagonian zone, FYRO Macedonia. The pegmatite exhibits zonal internal structure with the following sub-units: the wall zone (amazonite microcline &plusmn; biotite, quartz), the first intermediate zone (epidote + hematite + grossular + muscovite + quartz + almandine &plusmn; zircon, beryl, microcline, quartz), the second intermediate zone (albite + quartz &plusmn; microcline) and the core (massive quartz). According to the microprobe data epidote belongs to clinozoisite subgroup with formula (Ca</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.96-1.99</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">Mn</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.02-0.03</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">Fe</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">²⁺_0.00-0.02</span><span style="font-size: small;">)(Al</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">2.17-2.46</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">Fe</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">³⁺_0.51-0.82</span><span style="font-size: small;">Ti</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.00-0.01</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">)(Si</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">O</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">)(Si</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.99-1.00</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">Al</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.00-0.01</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">O</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span>}<span style="font-size: small;">)O(OH). The occurrences of almandine and zircon with low U, Th and REE content, are indicative to weakly evolved granitic/granodioritic rocks. The absence of aplites suggests steady pressure condition during the course of pegmatite crystallization</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Microthermometric data combined by the two-feldspar geothermometer gained pressure from 4.8 to 5.6 kbar for the second intermediate zone. The wall zone, composed of amazonite microcline, crystallized at temperature between 650 and 760. Dropping of melt temperature below 550&deg;C, under the oxygen fugacity between 10</span>^{<span style="font-size: x-small;">-22</span>}<span style="font-size: small;"> and 10</span>^{<span style="font-size: x-small;">-19.5</span>}<span style="font-size: small;"> bar, was the principal trigger for deposition of minerals in the first intermediate zone.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>The residual fluid, depleted in Ca, Fe and K, and enriched in water, Na and Si, caused deposition of the second intermediate zone (albite + quartz) at <span style="color: black;">temperature between 445 and 465&deg;C. </span>The massive quartz core crystallized in the very last stage of the pegmatite <span style="color: black;">evolution (T &asymp; 400-480&deg;C) from melt</span> residue enriched in silica, water and CO</span>_{<span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span>}<span style="font-size: small;"> content.</span></span></span></p>