Garnet-spinel intergrowths in ultrahigh-temperature granulite, Eastern Ghats, India: Possible evidence of an early Tschermak-rich orthopyroxene during prograde metamorphism

American Mineralogist

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 375-384

  Das, Kaushik ^a,e   Bose, Sankar ^b   Ohnishi, Ichiro ^c   Dasgupta, Somnath ^d  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Early aluminous orthopyroxene; Eastern Ghats; Garnet spinel intergrowth; India; Prograde path for UHT rocks

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; TEXTURES;

EASTERN GHATS; INDIA; INTERGROWTH; METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION; ORTHOPYROXENE; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SPINEL SOLID SOLUTIONS; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE;

GARNETS;

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GARNET; GRANULITE; GROWTH; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHISM; ORTHOPYROXENE; PARAGENESIS; SPINEL;

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

EID: 33745940179     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.1895     Document Type: Article

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