First report of garnet-corundum rocks from southern India: Implications for prograde high-pressure (eclogite-facies?) metamorphism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 111-129

  Shimpo, Makoto ^a   Tsunogae, Toshiaki ^a,b   Santosh, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corundum; Garnet; Gondwana; High Pressure and ultrahigh temperature metamorphism; Palghat Cauvery Shear Zone System; Sapphirine; Southern India

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; PORPHYROBLASTIC OCCURENCE; SAPPHIRINE; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CORUNDUM; GARNETS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PETROGRAPHY; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

PETROLOGY;

CORUNDUM; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 31344436191     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.042     Document Type: Article

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