U-Th-total Pb dating of monazite from orthogneisses and their ultra-high temperature metapelitic enclaves: Implications for the multistage tectonic evolution of the Madurai Block, southern India

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-427

  Braun, Ingo ^a   Appel, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monazite; Polymetamorphism; Southern India; U Th total Pb dating; UHT metamorphism

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; GRANITE; MONAZITE; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS;

CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; ELECTRON MICROPROBES; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; POLYMETAMORPHISM; SOUTHERN INDIA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UHT METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE;

PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; LEAD-LEAD DATING; MIGMATIZATION; MONAZITE; ORTHOGNEISS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MADURAI; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 33746488794     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2006/0018-0415     Document Type: Article

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