Metamorphic evolution of garnet-clinopyroxene-amphibole rocks from the Proterozoic Songshugou mafic-ultramafic complex, Qinling Mountains, central China

Island Arc

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 259-280

  Zhang, Z J ^a,b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Garnet amphibolite; Geobarometry; Geothermometry; Metamorphism; Proterozoic; Qinling Mountains

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; ECLOGITE; P-T CONDITIONS;

CHINA;

EID: 0032730406     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.1999.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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