Hydrogen in spessartine-almandine garnets as a tracer of granitic pegmatite evolution

American Mineralogist

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 485-490

  Arredondo, Elizabeth H ^a   Rossman, George R ^a   Lumpkin, Gregory R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; HYDROGEN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TRACERS;

CALIFORNIA; CORE ZONES; DIKE SYSTEM; GRANITIC PEGMATITE; HIMALAYAS; MAJOR AND MINOR ELEMENTS; OH CONTENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

GRANITE;

ALMANDINE; GARNET; GRANITE; HYDROGEN; MINERALOGY; PEGMATITE; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; SPESSARTINE; ZONATION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0034998760     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2001-0412     Document Type: Article

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