New evidence for coesite in eclogite and gneisses: Defining an ultrahigh-pressure province in the Western Gneiss region of Norway

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 927-930

  Wain, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; QUARTZ;

LOCAL SCALE; LOWER PRESSURES; OMPHACITE; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; ULTRA-HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISMS; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CLINOZOISITE; COESITE; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GARNET; METAMORPHISM; PSEUDOMORPH; TERRANE;

NORDFJORDEN; NORWAY; SOGN OG FJORDANE; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

EID: 0001472120     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0927:NEFCIE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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