Aluminous sapphirine granulites from the Eastern Ghats Belt (India): Phase relations and relevance to counterclockwise P-T history

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-48

  Das, Suman ^a   Bhattacharya, Abhijit ^a   Raith, Michael M ^b   Bhadra, Subhadip ^a   Banerjee, Manua ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Counterclockwise P T path; Lithospheric thinning; MAS grid; Prograde heating; Sapphirine granulites

Indexed keywords

BELTS; BIOTITE; COOLING; FELDSPAR; MICA; STABILIZATION;

HIGH TEMPERATURE; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MAS GRID; P-T PATH; SAPPHIRINE GRANULITES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL RELAXATION;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

GRANULITE; METAMORPHISM; P-T CONDITIONS;

ASIA; EASTERN GHATS; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33644939364     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2006/0018-0035     Document Type: Article

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