Coexisting retrograde jadeite and omphacite in a jadeite-bearing lawsonite eclogite from the Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala

American Mineralogist

Volumn 90, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 836-842

  Tsujimori, Tatsuki ^a   Liou, Juhn G ^a   Coleman, Robert G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ECLOGITES; FAULT ZONE; GUATEMALA; MOTAGUA; OMPHACITE; PHASE RELATION; PHENGITE; PORPHYROBLASTS;

SILICATE MINERALS;

ECLOGITE; JADEITE; MINERALOGY; OMPHACITE; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20444457841     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2005.1699     Document Type: Article

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