Pressure-temperature-reaction history of metapelitic rocks from the Maryland Piedmont on the basis of correlated garnet zoning and plagioclase-inclusion composition

American Mineralogist

Volumn 81, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 1460-1475

  Lang, Helen M ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; KYANITE DEPOSITS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; ZONING;

CONSTANT PRESSURES; GARNET ZONING; GROSSULAR; INCLUSION COMPOSITION; INCREASE IN PRESSURE; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION; THERMOBAROMETRY;

GARNETS;

GARNET; GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; METAPELITE; P/T PATH; PLAGIOCLASE; ZONATION;

USA, MARYLAND, PIEDMONT;

EID: 0030404807     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1996-11-1218     Document Type: Article

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